Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 13
Labradors were bred to fetch from water, with a thick waterproof coat and a thick otter-like tail used as a rudder.
What happens: breed, fetch, use · To what, where: Labradors, water, thick like tail
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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: 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 | Labradors | labrador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bred | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bred | aux:pass |
| 3 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fetch | mark |
| 5 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bred | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetch | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coat | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 coat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coat | det |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coat | amod |
| 12 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coat | amod |
| 13 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetch | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tail | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tail | det |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tail | amod |
| 17 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tail | amod |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coat | conj |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tail | acl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 rudder | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rudder | det |
| 24 | rudder | rudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 used | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bred | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | past · passive | Labradors | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | water | with a thick waterproof coat and a thick like tail | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from water=Source | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | a thick like tail not said here | as a rudder | vn eat-39.1 «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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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