Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 0
The higher you climb a mountain, the colder it gets and the thinner the air becomes, so each breath brings less oxygen; climbers on Everest often carry bottles of oxygen.
Who acts: you, mountain, air, breath, climbers · What happens: climb, get, become, bring, carry · To what, where: mountain, less oxygen, bottles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (you, mountain, air, breath), 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 higher | det |
| 2 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 climb | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climb | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 colder | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 colder | det |
| 9 | colder | cold | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 gets | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 becomes | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thinner | det |
| 14 | thinner | thinner | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 becomes | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 becomes | nsubj |
| 17 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brings | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 brings | advmod |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 breath | det |
| 21 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brings | nsubj |
| 22 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | parataxis |
| 23 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 oxygen | amod |
| 24 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brings | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
| 26 | climbers | climber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 carry | nsubj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Everest | case |
| 28 | Everest | Everest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 climbers | nmod |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 carry | advmod |
| 30 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | parataxis |
| 31 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 carry | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 oxygen | case |
| 33 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bottles | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | infinitive | you | a mountain | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | present | mountain | cold property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | become | present | the air | thinner property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | each breath | less oxygen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | present | climbers on Everest | bottles of oxygen | often property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:0.
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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