Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals, sentence 20
Taming means changing a whole kind of animal over many generations, not training one animal.
Who acts: Taming · What happens: mean, change, not train · To what, where: whole kind, many generations, one animal
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 (Taming), 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 | Taming | taming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 animal | case |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 generations | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 generations | amod |
| 11 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 training | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 training | advmod |
| 14 | training | train | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 changing | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 animal | nummod |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 training | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | 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 | mean | present | Taming | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | change not said to happen | gerund | Taming not said here | a whole kind of animal | over many generations | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | |||
| 3 | not train | gerund | Taming not said here | one animal | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:20.
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): R8-pos-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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