Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 10
Seagull is just a nickname; there are many kinds of gull, such as herring gulls and black-headed gulls, and many live inland.
Who acts: Seagull, many kinds, many · What happens: be, head, live · To what, where: nickname
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 (Seagull, many kinds, many), 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 | Seagull | seagull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nickname | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nickname | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 nickname | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nickname | det |
| 5 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 are | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nickname | parataxis |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kinds | amod |
| 10 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gull | case |
| 12 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kinds | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gulls | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 17 gulls | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gulls | compound |
| 17 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kinds | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gulls | cc |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gulls | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 black | punct |
| 21 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 gulls | amod |
| 22 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gulls | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 live | cc |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 are | conj |
| 27 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 26 live | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nickname | 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 | is a | present | Seagull | a nickname | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | many kinds of gull such herring gulls and black headed gulls | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | live | present | many | inland property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:10.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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