Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 14
An ostrich in danger runs at up to about seventy kilometres an hour or kicks hard.
Who acts: ostrich · What happens: run, kick · To what, where: seventy kilometres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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 (ostrich), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ostrich | det |
| 2 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 danger | case |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ostrich | nmod |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 kilometres | case |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 at | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 kilometres | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 seventy | advmod |
| 10 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 kilometres | nummod |
| 11 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 runs | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 kicks | cc |
| 15 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 runs | conj |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 kicks | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | a ostrich in danger | seventy kilometres a hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | kick | present | a ostrich in danger not said here | hard property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:14.
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, 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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