Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 1
Some are as big as a toddler, some as small as a sparrow, some live in holes in the ground and one wades into rivers for fish.
Who acts: Some, one · What happens: be, live, wade · To what, where: holes, rivers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls» 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 (Some, one), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 big | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 big | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 big | advmod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 toddler | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 toddler | det |
| 7 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 big | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 small | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 small | nsubj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 small | advmod |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 big | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 sparrow | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sparrow | det |
| 14 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 small | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 live | nsubj |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 big | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 holes | case |
| 19 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 live | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holes | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wades | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 wades | nsubj |
| 25 | wades | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 live | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 rivers | case |
| 27 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wades | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 fish | case |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wades | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 big | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Some | as a toddler; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | some | as a sparrow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | present | some | holes in the ground | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location | ||||
| 4 | wade | present | one | rivers | for fish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination |
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:301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls.lesson:1.
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 ×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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