Budgies and canaries, sentence 9
Head-bobbing usually means a budgie is excited or showing off, and it can also be a sign that it wants food.
Who acts: Head bobbing, budgie, bobbing · What happens: mean, be, show off, want · To what, where: sign, food · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Head bobbing, budgie, bobbing), 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 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bobbing | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Head | punct |
| 3 | bobbing | bobbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 budgie | det |
| 7 | budgie | budgie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excited | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 excited | cop |
| 9 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | ccomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 showing | cc |
| 11 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 excited | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 showing | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sign | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sign | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sign | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sign | aux |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 sign | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sign | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sign | det |
| 20 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 wants | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wants | nsubj |
| 23 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sign | acl |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wants | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Head bobbing | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a budgie | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show off | gerund | a budgie not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | can | bobbing | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | present | bobbing | food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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