Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 4
Scientists test bird minds with puzzles: a tube of water with a treat floating too low, a wire to bend, a box with several locks.
Who acts: Scientists, treat · What happens: test, float, bend · To what, where: bird minds
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 (Scientists, treat), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 test | nsubj |
| 2 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minds | compound |
| 4 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 test | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 puzzles | case |
| 6 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 test | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tube | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tube | det |
| 9 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 puzzles | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tube | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 treat | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 treat | det |
| 14 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tube | nmod |
| 15 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 treat | acl |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 low | advmod |
| 17 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 floating | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wire | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wire | det |
| 20 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tube | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bend | mark |
| 22 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wire | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 box | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 box | det |
| 25 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tube | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 locks | case |
| 27 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 locks | amod |
| 28 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 box | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 test | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | present | Scientists | bird minds | with puzzles a tube of water with a treat and a wire and a box with several locks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | a treat not said here | low property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bend | to-infinitive | Scientists not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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:4.
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 ×1. 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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