Budgies and canaries, sentence 8
A budgie staring at itself in a mirror may treat the reflection like another bird, and budgies are happier with a real budgie as a friend.
Who acts: budgie, budgies · What happens: stare, treat, be · To what, where: mirror, reflection
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 (budgie, budgies), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 budgie | det |
| 2 | budgie | budgie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treat | nsubj |
| 3 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 budgie | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 itself | case |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 staring | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mirror | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mirror | det |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staring | obl |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 treat | aux |
| 10 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reflection | det |
| 12 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treat | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reflection | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 happier | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 happier | cc |
| 18 | budgies | budgie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 happier | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 happier | cop |
| 20 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 treat | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 budgie | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 budgie | det |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 budgie | amod |
| 24 | budgie | budgie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happier | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 friend | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 friend | det |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 budgie | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 treat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | gerund | a budgie not said here | a mirror | at cere | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at itself=Theme | |||
| 2 | treat | may | a budgie | the reflection | like another bird | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reflection=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | present | budgies | with a real budgie as a friend; happy property | tree rules |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-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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