Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals, sentence 0
When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history.
Who acts: you · What happens: ride, sit · To what, where: pony, thousands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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 (you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 ride | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ride | nsubj |
| 3 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sitting | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pony | det |
| 5 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sitting | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sitting | aux |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 thousands | case |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sitting | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 history | case |
| 14 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 years | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | you | a pony | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pony=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present · progressive | you | thousands of years of history | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thousand=Location |
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:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:0.
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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