Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 15
Gulls have many calls; the loud long call with the head thrown back claims a territory.
Who acts: Gulls, loud long call · What happens: have, throw back, claim · To what, where: many calls, head, territory
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, loud long call), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calls | amod |
| 4 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 call | det |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 call | amod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 call | amod |
| 9 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 claims | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | nmod |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 head | acl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 15 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 territory | det |
| 17 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 claims | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | 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 | have | present | Gulls | many calls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient | ||||
| 2 | throw back | participle | the head not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | present | the loud long call with the head | a territory | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent territory=Topic |
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:15.
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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