Horses, zebras and donkeys, sentence 9
A foal can usually stand within about an hour of birth and run within hours, and its legs are nearly as long as an adult's.
Who acts: foal, legs · What happens: stand, run, be
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 (foal, legs), 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 foal | det |
| 2 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 stand | advmod |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 hour | advmod |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birth | case |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hour | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 run | cc |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stand | conj |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 hours | case |
| 15 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 run | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 long | cc |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 legs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 long | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | cop |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stand | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 adult | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 adult | det |
| 26 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 long | obl |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 adult | case |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | 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 | stand | can | a foal | hour | usually property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | run | infinitive | a foal not said here | hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | foal's legs | as a adult; long, nearly property | tree rules |
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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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