Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 5
A small pond without fish, with gently sloping edges, gives them their best chance.
Who acts: small pond, fish · What happens: slope, give, chance · To what, where: best chance, fish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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 (small pond, fish), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pond | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pond | amod |
| 3 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 fish | case |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pond | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 edges | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 edges | case |
| 8 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 sloping | advmod |
| 9 | sloping | slope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 edges | amod |
| 10 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pond | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pond | punct |
| 12 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gives | iobj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 chance | amod |
| 16 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slope | gerund | gently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | present | a small pond without fish with sloping edges | fish's best chance | fish | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme | |||
| 3 | chance | fish | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.lesson:5.
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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