Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 2
That cheerful robin is also one of the fiercest birds in the garden: its red breast is a warning flag, and it will fight other robins to keep its patch, even singing to defend it all through the winter.
Who acts: cheerful robin, red breast, robin · What happens: be, fight, keep, sing, defend · To what, where: one, warning flag, other robins, patch, robin
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 (cheerful robin, red breast, robin), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 robin | det |
| 2 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robin | amod |
| 3 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 birds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 birds | det |
| 9 | fiercest | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 birds | amod |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 birds | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 flag | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 breast | amod |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flag | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 flag | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flag | det |
| 20 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flag | compound |
| 21 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fight | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fight | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fight | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fight | aux |
| 26 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 flag | conj |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 robins | amod |
| 28 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fight | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 keep | mark |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 robins | acl |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 patch | nmod:poss |
| 32 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 keep | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 singing | punct |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 singing | advmod |
| 35 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 fight | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 defend | mark |
| 37 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 singing | xcomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 defend | obj |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 42 winter | advmod |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 winter | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 winter | det |
| 42 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 defend | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | 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 | is a | present | that cheerful robin | one | of the fiercest birds in the garden | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | robin's red breast | a warning flag | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | future | robin | other robins | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robin=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | robin not said here | robin's patch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | robin not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | defend | to-infinitive | robin not said here | robin | winter | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/2/