Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 15
Ravens have been filmed sliding down snowy roofs again and again, apparently for fun, and they can save a tool to use later.
Who acts: Ravens · What happens: film, slide down, save, use · To what, where: Ravens, snowy roofs, tool
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» 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 (Ravens), 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 | Ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 filmed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 filmed | aux |
| 4 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | sliding | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 filmed | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 sliding | advmod |
| 7 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 roofs | amod |
| 8 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sliding | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 sliding | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 again | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 again | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 apparently | punct |
| 13 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 4 filmed | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fun | case |
| 15 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sliding | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 save | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 save | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 save | aux |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 filmed | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tool | det |
| 22 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 save | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 use | mark |
| 24 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tool | acl |
| 25 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 use | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filmed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | present · perfect · passive | Ravens | apparently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slide down | gerund | snowy roofs | again | for fun; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Agent | |||
| 3 | save | can | Ravens = raven | a tool | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme | ||||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive | Ravens = raven not said here | a tool not said here | late property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson:15.
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 ×2. 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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