The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 12
In Aesop's fable from ancient Greece, about 2500 years ago, a little mouse saves a lion by gnawing through a net.
Who acts: little mouse, lion · What happens: save, gnaw · To what, where: lion, fable, net
This is a sentence of the lesson «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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 (little mouse, lion), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 fable | case |
| 2 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fable | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Aesop | case |
| 4 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saves | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Greece | case |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Greece | amod |
| 7 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fable | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fable | punct |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 2500 | advmod |
| 10 | 2500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 saves | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 years | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ago | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mouse | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouse | amod |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saves | nsubj |
| 17 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lion | det |
| 19 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saves | obj |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 gnawing | mark |
| 21 | gnawing | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 lion | acl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 net | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 net | det |
| 24 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gnawing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 saves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present | a little mouse | a lion | Aesop's fable from ancient Greece | year | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | ||
| 2 | gnaw | gerund | a lion not said here | a net | vn chew-39.2 «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:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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