Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 13

Young gulls are brown and speckled; a herring gull takes about four years to look fully grown up.

Who acts: Young gulls, herring gull · What happens: be, speckle, take, look, grow up

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 (Young gulls, herring gull), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gulls	amod
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brown	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brown	cop
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 speckled	cc
6	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 brown	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gull	det
9	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gull	compound
10	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brown	parataxis
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 four	advmod
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 takes	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 takes	advcl
17	fully	fully	ADV	_	18 grown	advmod
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 look	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 grown	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Young gulls		brown property	tree rules
2	speckle	participle	Young gulls not said here			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	take	present	a herring gull	year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	to-infinitive	a herring gull not said here			tree rules
5	grow up	participle	a herring gull not said here		fully property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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