Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory, sentence 8
A newborn calf stands within about an hour so that it can drink milk and keep up with the herd.
Who acts: newborn calf, calf · What happens: stand, drink, keep up · To what, where: milk
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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 (newborn calf, calf), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 calf | det |
| 2 | newborn | newborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 calf | amod |
| 3 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 hour | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 drink | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drink | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 drink | aux |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stands | advcl |
| 14 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 keep | cc |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 drink | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 keep | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 herd | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 herd | det |
| 20 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | 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 | stand | present | a newborn calf | hour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drink | can | calf | milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep up | infinitive | calf not said here | with the herd | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
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:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.lesson:8.
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.
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