Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 16
Pigeons have learned to tell paintings by Monet from paintings by Picasso.
Who acts: Pigeons · What happens: learn, tell · To what, where: paintings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pigeons), 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 | Pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | aux |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learned | xcomp |
| 6 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Monet | case |
| 8 | Monet | Monet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 paintings | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 paintings | case |
| 10 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Picasso | case |
| 12 | Picasso | Picasso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 paintings | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | 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 | learn | present · perfect | Pigeons | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Pigeons not said here | paintings | paintings by Picasso | by Monet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent painting=Recipient |
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:16.
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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