More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 2
A chimpanzee bends branches into a fresh bed every single night, a bit like making your bed but starting with a tree.
Who acts: chimpanzee, bit · What happens: bend, make, start · To what, where: branches, fresh bed, bed
This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (chimpanzee, bit), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chimpanzee | det |
| 2 | chimpanzee | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bends | nsubj |
| 3 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bends | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bed | amod |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bends | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 night | amod |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bends | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bit | det |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bends | obl |
| 15 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 16 making | mark |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 bit | acl |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 starting | cc |
| 20 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 making | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 starting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bends | 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 | bend | present | a chimpanzee | branches | a fresh bed | night | a bit obl | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent branch=Material into bed=Product | |
| 2 | make | gerund | a bit not said here | your bed | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product | ||||
| 3 | start | gerund | a bit not said here | with a tree | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tree=Subeventuality |
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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:2.
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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