Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 7
The dodo was not stupid; it had lived with no hunters, so it had no reason to fear people.
Who acts: dodo · What happens: not be, live, have, fear · To what, where: reason, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (dodo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dodo | det |
| 2 | dodo | dodo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stupid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stupid | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stupid | advmod |
| 5 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 stupid | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lived | aux |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stupid | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hunters | case |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 hunters | det |
| 12 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stupid | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 reason | det |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fear | mark |
| 20 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 reason | acl |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fear | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stupid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the dodo | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | dodo | with no hunters | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with hunter=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | dodo | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fear | to-infinitive | dodo not said here | people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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