Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 11
Goats do not eat tin cans; they are curious and test things with their lips, so they nibble paper, labels and clothes.
Who acts: Goats · What happens: not eat, be, test, nibble · To what, where: tin cans, things, paper
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» 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 (Goats), 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 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cans | compound |
| 6 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 curious | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 curious | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 curious | cop |
| 10 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eat | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 test | cc |
| 12 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 curious | conj |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 test | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lips | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lips | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 test | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nibble | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 nibble | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 nibble | nsubj |
| 20 | nibble | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | parataxis |
| 21 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nibble | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 labels | punct |
| 23 | labels | label | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 paper | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 clothes | cc |
| 25 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 labels | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | 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 | not eat | present · do-support | Goats | tin cans | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | goats = goat | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | test | present | goats = goat not said here | things | with goats's lips | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 4 | nibble | present | goats = goat | paper and labels and clothes | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |
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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:11.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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