Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 13
A male pigeon puffs out his neck, coos and turns in circles to show off to a female; his neck feathers shine green and purple in the light.
Who acts: male pigeon, neck feathers · What happens: puff out, coo, turn, show off, shine · To what, where: neck, circles, female, light
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» 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 pigeon, neck feathers), 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 pigeon | det |
| 2 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pigeon | amod |
| 3 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puffs | nsubj |
| 4 | puffs | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 puffs | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 puffs | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coos | punct |
| 9 | coos | coo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 puffs | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turns | cc |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 puffs | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 circles | case |
| 13 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turns | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 turns | advcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 show | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 female | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 female | det |
| 19 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 shine | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feathers | compound |
| 23 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shine | nsubj |
| 24 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 puffs | parataxis |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shine | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 purple | cc |
| 27 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 green | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 light | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 light | det |
| 30 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shine | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 puffs | 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 | puff out | present | a male pigeon | Ireland's neck | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neck=Source | ||||
| 2 | coo | present | a male pigeon not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | a male pigeon not said here | circles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | show off | to-infinitive | a male pigeon not said here | a female | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to female=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | shine | present | Ireland's neck feathers | the light | green property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=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:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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