Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 15

Only male turkeys gobble, to attract females and warn rivals; wild turkeys can fly and run fast, but farm turkeys are bred so heavy that they can hardly fly.

Who acts: male turkeys, wild turkeys, turkeys · What happens: gobble, attract, warn, fly, run, breed · To what, where: females, rivals, farm turkeys

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 (male turkeys, wild turkeys, turkeys), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	3 turkeys	advmod
2	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turkeys	amod
3	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gobble	nsubj
4	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 attract	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 attract	mark
7	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gobble	advcl
8	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 attract	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 warn	cc
10	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 attract	conj
11	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 warn	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fly	punct
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 turkeys	amod
14	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fly	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fly	aux
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gobble	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 run	cc
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fly	conj
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 run	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bred	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 bred	cc
22	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turkeys	compound
23	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bred	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bred	aux:pass
25	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fly	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 heavy	advmod
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bred	xcomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 fly	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fly	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fly	aux
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 fly	advmod
32	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 heavy	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gobble	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gobble	present	male turkeys			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	attract	to-infinitive	male turkeys not said here	females		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient
3	warn speech: warn	infinitive	male turkeys not said here	rivals		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient
4	fly	can	wild turkeys			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	infinitive	wild turkeys not said here		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	breed	present · passive		farm turkeys	heavy property	tree rules
7	fly	can	turkeys = turkey		hardly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:15.

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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