The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 4
When wolves come, musk oxen stand in a ring with the calves in the middle and their horns pointing out.
Who acts: wolves, musk oxen, horns · What happens: come, stand, point out · To what, where: ring
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 (wolves, musk oxen, horns), 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 | When | when | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 5 | musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oxen | compound |
| 6 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ring | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 calves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 calves | det |
| 13 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ring | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 middle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calves | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 horns | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horns | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 calves | conj |
| 20 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 horns | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 pointing | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | musk oxen | a ring with the calves in the middle and oxen's horns | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location | ||||
| 3 | point out | gerund | oxen's horns not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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): R8-pos-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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