Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 11
Swallows and house martins build cup nests from mud mixed with spit, and a house martin nest takes about 1,000 mud pellets.
Who acts: Swallows, martin nest · What happens: build, mix, take · To what, where: cup nests, mud, 1,000 mud pellets
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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 (Swallows, martin nest), 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 | Swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 build | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 martins | cc |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 martins | compound |
| 4 | martins | martin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Swallows | conj |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nests | compound |
| 7 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 build | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 mud | case |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obl |
| 10 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mud | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 spit | case |
| 12 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mixed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 takes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 takes | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nest | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 martin | compound |
| 17 | martin | martin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nest | compound |
| 18 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 takes | nsubj |
| 19 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 build | conj |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 1,000 | advmod |
| 21 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 pellets | nummod |
| 22 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pellets | compound |
| 23 | pellets | pellet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 takes | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 build | 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 | build | present | Swallows and house martins | cup nests | mud | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset nest=Product from mud=Material | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | mud not said here | with spit | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with spit=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | present | a martin nest | 1,000 mud pellets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pellet=Theme |
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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:11.
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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