Bears, sentence 14
Most bears are omnivores, and their sense of smell is many times better than a dog's.
Who acts: Most bears, sense, omnivores · What happens: be, sense · To what, where: omnivores, smell
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears» 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 (Most bears, sense, omnivores), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 bears | amod |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 omnivores | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 omnivores | cop |
| 4 | omnivores | omnivore | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 better | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sense | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 better | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 smell | case |
| 10 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sense | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | cop |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 better | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 omnivores | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 better | obl |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 omnivores | 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 | Most bears | omnivores | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | omnivores's sense of smell | time | than a dog; good property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sense | omnivores = omnivore | smell | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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:023-bears.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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