Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 13

The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a crest, dagger-like claws and a deep booming call, often called the living bird that looks most like a dinosaur; it can be dangerous, so people should never go close.

Who acts: cassowary, deep booming call, living bird, people · What happens: be, call, look, not go · To what, where: big flightless bird, living bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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 (cassowary, deep booming call, living bird, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cassowary	det
2	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
6	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 crest	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crest	det
10	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 claws	punct
12	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 like	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 claws	amod
15	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 crest	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 call	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 call	det
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 call	amod
19	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 call	compound
20	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crest	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 called	advmod
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 call	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
25	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bird	compound
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 looks	nsubj
28	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bird	acl:relcl
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 looks	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 dinosaur	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dinosaur	det
32	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looks	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 dangerous	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dangerous	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 dangerous	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 dangerous	cop
37	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 go	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	43 go	advmod
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 go	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 go	aux
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 go	advmod
43	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 dangerous	conj
44	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 go	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cassowary	a big flightless bird	with a crest and like claws and a deep booming call	tree rules
2	call	participle	a deep booming call not said here	the living bird	often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	present	the living bird		like a dinosaur	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	can	cassowary		dangerous property	tree rules
5	not go	should	people		close property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson:13.

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, 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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