Horses, zebras and donkeys, sentence 12
Zebras have black skin, so they are usually described as black with white stripes.
Who acts: Zebras · What happens: have, describe · To what, where: black skin, zebra
This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, zebras and donkeys» 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 (Zebras), 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 | Zebras | zebra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 skin | amod |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 described | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 described | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 described | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 described | aux:pass |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 described | advmod |
| 10 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 black | case |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 described | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stripes | case |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stripes | amod |
| 15 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 black | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Zebras | black skin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | describe | present · passive | zebra | as black; usually property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as black=Attribute |
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:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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