The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 11
Arctic hares can hop on their back legs like a kangaroo when they run fast, and they sometimes gather in groups of hundreds.
Who acts: Arctic hares, hares · What happens: hop, run, gather · To what, where: back legs, groups
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arctic hares, hares), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hares | amod |
| 2 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hop | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hop | aux |
| 4 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 legs | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legs | compound |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hop | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 kangaroo | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kangaroo | det |
| 11 | kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hop | obl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 run | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 run | nsubj |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hop | advcl |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gather | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gather | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gather | nsubj |
| 19 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 gather | advmod |
| 20 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hop | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 groups | case |
| 22 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gather | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hundreds | case |
| 24 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 groups | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | can | Arctic hares | hares's back legs | like a kangaroo | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run | present | hares = hare | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gather | present | hares = hare | groups of hundreds | sometimes property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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