Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 5
Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so some snatch chips and sandwiches at the seaside.
Who acts: Gulls, grey, people, some · What happens: be, learn, carry, snatch · To what, where: food, chips, seaside
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, grey, people, some), 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 | 3 bold | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bold | cop |
| 3 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 clever | cc |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bold | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 learn | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 learn | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 learn | nsubj |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bold | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 learn | ccomp |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 snatch | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 snatch | advmod |
| 16 | some | some | PRON | PronType=Ind | 17 snatch | nsubj |
| 17 | snatch | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 learn | conj |
| 18 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snatch | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sandwiches | cc |
| 20 | sandwiches | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chips | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 seaside | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 seaside | det |
| 23 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snatch | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Gulls | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Gulls not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | learn | present | grey | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | carry | present | people | food | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 5 | snatch | present | some | chips and sandwiches | the seaside | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=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:5.
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. 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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