Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 12
Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up worms and grubs.
Who acts: Gulls, tractor, ploughing · What happens: follow, plough, turn up · To what, where: tractor, field, worms
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 (Gulls, tractor, ploughing), 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 | Gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tractor | det |
| 4 | tractor | tractor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 follow | obj |
| 5 | ploughing | plough | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tractor | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ploughing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 turns | mark |
| 10 | ploughing | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 follow | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 turns | compound:prt |
| 13 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turns | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grubs | cc |
| 15 | grubs | grub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 worms | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Gulls | a tractor | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tractor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plough | gerund | a tractor not said here | a field | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | turn up | present | ploughing | worms and grubs | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location worm=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:12.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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