Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 14
Owls are expert hunters with superb hearing, but crows and parrots solve much harder puzzles than owls.
Who acts: Owls, crows · What happens: be, solve · To what, where: expert hunters, harder puzzles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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 (Owls, crows), 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 | Owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunters | cop |
| 3 | expert | expert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunters | amod |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hearing | case |
| 6 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearing | amod |
| 7 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunters | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 solve | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 solve | cc |
| 10 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 solve | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 parrots | cc |
| 12 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crows | conj |
| 13 | solve | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunters | conj |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 harder | advmod |
| 15 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 puzzles | amod |
| 16 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 solve | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 owls | case |
| 18 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 puzzles | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunters | 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 | is a | present | Owls | expert hunters | with superb hearing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | solve | present | crows and parrots | harder puzzles | than owls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:14.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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