Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 16
A gull has two legs, two wings and webbed feet for swimming.
Who acts: gull · What happens: have, web, swim · To what, where: two legs
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gull | det |
| 2 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wings | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 wings | nummod |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 legs | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feet | cc |
| 10 | webbed | web | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feet | amod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 legs | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 swimming | case |
| 13 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 feet | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a gull | two legs and two wings and webbed feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | web | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | a gull not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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