Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate, sentence 14
Crocodiles and birds share a common ancestor, so a crocodile is a closer cousin to a sparrow than to a lizard or a gecko.
Who acts: Crocodiles, crocodile · What happens: share, be · To what, where: common ancestor, closer cousin
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 (Crocodiles, crocodile), 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 | Crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 share | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 birds | cc |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Crocodiles | conj |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ancestor | det |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ancestor | amod |
| 7 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 share | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cousin | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 cousin | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 crocodile | det |
| 11 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cousin | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cousin | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cousin | det |
| 14 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 cousin | amod |
| 15 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 share | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sparrow | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sparrow | det |
| 18 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cousin | nmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 lizard | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 lizard | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lizard | det |
| 22 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cousin | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 gecko | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gecko | det |
| 25 | gecko | gecko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lizard | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 share | 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 | share | present | Crocodiles and birds | a common ancestor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a crocodile | a closer cousin | to a sparrow; than a lizard or a gecko | 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:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken.lesson:14.
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.
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