Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 4
Robins follow gardeners because digging brings worms and insects to the surface, and in the wild they follow wild boar for the same reason.
Who acts: Robins, digging, worms · What happens: follow, bring · To what, where: gardeners, worms, surface, wild boar, wild
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 (Robins, digging, worms), 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 | Robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | obj |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 brings | mark |
| 5 | digging | dig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | nsubj |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 follow | advcl |
| 7 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brings | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 insects | cc |
| 9 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worms | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 surface | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surface | det |
| 12 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 follow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 follow | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wild | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wild | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 follow | nsubj |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 follow | conj |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boar | amod |
| 21 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 reason | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 reason | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reason | amod |
| 25 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | 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 | follow | present | Robins | gardeners | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | digging | worms and insects | the surface | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent worm=Theme to surface=Destination | |||
| 3 | follow | present | worms = worm | wild boar | the wild | for the same reason | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boar=Theme in wild=Trajectory |
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:4.
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. 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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