Budgies and canaries, sentence 10

Male canaries sing the most, and coal miners once took canaries underground because the birds were harmed by dangerous gas before the miners noticed it.

Who acts: Male canaries, coal miners, dangerous gas, miners · What happens: s, take, harm, notice · To what, where: canaries, birds, bird

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 (Male canaries, coal miners, dangerous gas, miners), 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	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 canaries	amod
2	canaries	canary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	s	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 most	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 sing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
8	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 miners	compound
9	miners	miner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	nsubj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 took	advmod
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	conj
12	canaries	canary	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
13	underground	underground	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 harmed	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 harmed	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 harmed	aux:pass
18	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 took	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 gas	case
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gas	amod
21	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 harmed	obl
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 noticed	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 miners	det
24	miners	miner	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 noticed	nsubj
25	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 harmed	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 noticed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	s	present	Male canaries			tree rules
2	take	past	coal miners	canaries	once, underground property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canary=Theme
3	harm	past · passive	dangerous gas	the birds		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	notice	past	the miners	bird		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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:10.

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 ×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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