Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 1
Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason.
Who acts: gardeners, robins, wild boar · What happens: be, follow, root · To what, where: wild boar, forest floor
This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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 (gardeners, robins, wild boar), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 reason | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 were | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 followed | advcl |
| 5 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 robins | punct |
| 7 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boar | amod |
| 10 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | rooting | root | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 boar | acl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | compound |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rooting | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 reason | case |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 20 reason | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reason | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reason | amod |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | gardeners | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | robins | wild boar | for the same reason | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent boar=Theme for reason=Attribute | |||
| 3 | root | gerund | wild boar not said here | the forest floor | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through floor=Location |
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:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders.lesson:1.
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): R8-pos-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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