Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 4

A brown speckled gull is not a different bird but a young one, and a big herring gull takes about four years to get its grown-up grey and white feathers.

Who acts: brown speckled gull, big herring gull · What happens: speckle, not be, take, get, grow · To what, where: different bird, grown grey

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 (brown speckled gull, big 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gull	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gull	amod
3	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gull	amod
4	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bird	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bird	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 takes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 takes	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 gull	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gull	amod
18	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gull	compound
19	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 takes	nsubj
20	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bird	conj
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 four	advmod
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 takes	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 takes	advcl
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feathers	nmod:poss
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 grey	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 grown	punct
29	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grown	compound
30	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 feathers	cc
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grey	conj
33	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 grey	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	speckle	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	present	a brown speckled gull	a different bird but a young one		tree rules
3	take	present	a big herring gull		year	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get	to-infinitive	a big herring gull not said here	grown grey and gull's feathers		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grey=Stimulus
5	grow	participle				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:4.

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 ×3. 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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