Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 8
Many gulls have moved into towns and nest on flat rooftops, because cities have food and safe roofs away from foxes.
Who acts: Many gulls, cities · What happens: move, nest, have · To what, where: towns, flat rooftops, food
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 (Many gulls, cities), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gulls | amod |
| 2 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | aux |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 towns | case |
| 6 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nest | cc |
| 8 | nest | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 rooftops | case |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rooftops | amod |
| 11 | rooftops | rooftop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nest | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | conj |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 roofs | cc |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 roofs | amod |
| 19 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 food | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 have | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 foxes | case |
| 22 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 away | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · perfect | Many gulls | towns | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into town=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | nest | present | Many gulls not said here | flat rooftops | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | cities | food and safe roofs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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