Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 0

Anyone who has eaten chips on a seaside promenade knows the gull that swoops down and snatches one right out of a child's hand: gulls are bold and clever, and they have learned that people carry food.

Who acts: Anyone, gull, gulls, chips, people · What happens: eat, know, swoop down, snatch, be, learn · To what, where: chips, seaside promenade, gull, one, hand, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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 (Anyone, gull, gulls, chips), 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	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 knows	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 eaten	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Anyone	acl:relcl
5	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 promenade	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 promenade	det
8	seaside	seaside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 promenade	compound
9	promenade	promenade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gull	det
12	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 swoops	nsubj
14	swoops	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gull	acl:relcl
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 swoops	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 snatches	cc
17	snatches	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 swoops	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 snatches	obj
19	right	right	ADV	_	25 hand	advmod
20	out	out	ADP	_	25 hand	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 hand	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hand	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 child	case
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snatches	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 bold	punct
27	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bold	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bold	cop
29	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knows	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 clever	cc
31	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bold	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 learned	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 learned	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 learned	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 learned	aux
36	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 knows	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 carry	mark
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 carry	nsubj
39	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 learned	ccomp
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carry	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect		chips	a seaside promenade		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Patient
2	know	present	Anyone	the gull			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer gull=Stimulus
3	swoop down	present	the gull			down property	tree rules
4	snatch	present	the gull not said here	one	a child's hand		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme out hand=Source
5	is	present	gulls			bold property	tree rules
6	be		gulls not said here				tree rules
7	learn	present · perfect	chips = chip				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	carry	present	people	food			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-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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