Budgies and canaries, sentence 0
Budgies, short for budgerigars, are small parrots from the dry grasslands of Australia, where they fly in huge flocks that look like a green cloud.
Who acts: Budgies, huge flocks · What happens: be, fly, look · To what, where: small parrots, dry grasslands, huge flocks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Budgies and canaries» 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 (Budgies, huge flocks), 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 | Budgies | budgie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 parrots | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 budgerigars | punct |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 budgerigars | amod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 budgerigars | case |
| 5 | budgerigars | budgerigar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Budgies | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Budgies | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 parrots | cop |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parrots | amod |
| 9 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 grasslands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grasslands | det |
| 12 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grasslands | amod |
| 13 | grasslands | grassland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 parrots | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Australia | case |
| 15 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 grasslands | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fly | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 fly | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fly | nsubj |
| 19 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grasslands | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 flocks | case |
| 21 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flocks | amod |
| 22 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fly | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 look | nsubj |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 flocks | acl:relcl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 cloud | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cloud | det |
| 27 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cloud | amod |
| 28 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 look | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 parrots | 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 | is a | present | Budgies | small parrots | the dry grasslands of Australia | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | present | Budgies = budgie | huge flocks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flock=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | present | huge flocks | like a green cloud | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:205-budgies-and-canaries.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): 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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