Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 1

On a park lawn a gull may stamp its feet up and down like a little dance; the drumming feels like rain to the worms, they come up, and the gull eats them.

Who acts: gull, drumming, feet · What happens: stamp, feel, come up, eat · To what, where: feet, park lawn

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 (gull, drumming, feet), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 lawn	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lawn	det
3	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lawn	compound
4	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stamp	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gull	det
6	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stamp	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stamp	aux
8	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stamp	obj
11	up	up	ADV	_	8 stamp	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 down	cc
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 up	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 dance	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dance	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dance	amod
17	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stamp	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 feels	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drumming	det
20	drumming	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feels	nsubj
21	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stamp	parataxis
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 rain	case
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feels	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 worms	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 worms	det
26	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rain	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
29	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stamp	advcl
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 eats	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 eats	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gull	det
34	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eats	nsubj
35	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 come	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eats	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stamp	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed hedge=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stamp	may	a gull	gull's feet	a park lawn	like a little dance	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on lawn=Destination
2	feel	present	the drumming			like rain to the worms	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like rain=Theme
3	come up	present	feet = foot				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	present	the gull	feet = foot			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:1.

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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