Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 17
Foxes are clever, but crows, ravens and parrots solve puzzles that need several steps; cartoon personalities are made up.
Who acts: Foxes, crows, puzzles · What happens: be, solve, need, make up · To what, where: puzzles, several steps, cartoon personalities
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 (Foxes, crows, puzzles), 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 | Foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clever | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clever | cop |
| 3 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 solve | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 solve | cc |
| 6 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 solve | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ravens | punct |
| 8 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crows | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 parrots | cc |
| 10 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crows | conj |
| 11 | solve | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clever | conj |
| 12 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 solve | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 need | nsubj |
| 14 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 puzzles | acl:relcl |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 steps | amod |
| 16 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 need | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 personalities | compound |
| 19 | personalities | personality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clever | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 made | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Foxes | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | solve | present | crows and ravens and parrots | puzzles | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | need | present | puzzles | several steps | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot step=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make up | present · passive | cartoon personalities | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:17.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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