Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 0

Look closely at a chicken's scaly feet, sharp claws and beady eye as it stalks across the yard, and you are looking at a living dinosaur.

Who acts: you, eye · What happens: look, stalk

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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 (you, eye), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closely	closely	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	8 feet	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chicken	det
5	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feet	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 chicken	case
7	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feet	amod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 claws	punct
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 claws	amod
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feet	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eye	cc
13	beady	beady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eye	amod
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feet	conj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 stalks	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stalks	nsubj
17	stalks	stalk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	advcl
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 yard	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 yard	det
20	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stalks	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looking	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looking	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 looking	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 looking	aux
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Look	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 dinosaur	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dinosaur	det
28	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dinosaur	compound
29	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	at a chicken's scaly feet and sharp claws and beady eye; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme
2	stalk	present	eye	across the yard	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	look	present · progressive	you	at a living dinosaur	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dinosaur=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:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.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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