The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 4

Cartoons often mix up homes, putting a polar bear and a penguin on the same iceberg, so a good quiz player always asks: north or south, land or sea, day or night?

Who acts: Cartoons, good quiz player · What happens: mix up, put, ask · To what, where: homes, polar bear, same iceberg

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and 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 (Cartoons, good quiz player), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mix	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 mix	advmod
3	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 mix	compound:prt
5	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mix	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 putting	punct
7	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 mix	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bear	det
9	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bear	amod
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 putting	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 penguin	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 penguin	det
13	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bear	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 iceberg	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 iceberg	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 iceberg	amod
17	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 putting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 asks	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	25 asks	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 player	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 player	amod
22	quiz	quiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 player	compound
23	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asks	nsubj
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 asks	advmod
25	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mix	parataxis
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 north	punct
27	north	north	ADV	_	25 asks	ccomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 south	cc
29	south	south	ADV	_	27 north	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 land	punct
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 north	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 sea	cc
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 land	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 day	punct
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 north	conj
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 night	cc
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 day	conj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mix	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mix up	present	Cartoons	homes		often property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
2	put	gerund	Cartoons not said here	a polar bear and a penguin	the same iceberg		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme on iceberg=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	present	a good quiz player			always property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:4.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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