How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 13
Bird ringing tells scientists where birds travel and how long they live; an albatross called Wisdom, ringed in 1956, was still laying eggs at over 70 years old.
Who acts: Bird ringing, birds, albatross · What happens: tell, travel, live, call, ring, lay · To what, where: scientists, albatross, 1956, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 (Bird ringing, birds, albatross), 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 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ringing | compound |
| 2 | ringing | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tells | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 travel | advmod |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 travel | nsubj |
| 7 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tells | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 long | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 travel | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 albatross | det |
| 15 | albatross | albatross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laying | nsubj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 albatross | acl |
| 17 | Wisdom | wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 albatross | punct |
| 19 | ringed | ring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 albatross | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1956 | case |
| 21 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 ringed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 laying | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 laying | aux |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 laying | advmod |
| 25 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tells | parataxis |
| 26 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 laying | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 29 70 | advmod |
| 29 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 laying | obl |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 years | amod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Bird ringing | scientists | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent scientist=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | birds | long property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | birds = bird | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | a albatross not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ring | participle | a albatross not said here | 1956 | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1956=Location | ||||
| 6 | lay | past · progressive | a albatross | eggs | still; year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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.
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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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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