Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 0
On a summer evening in Britain, a tiny shape flits round and round a street lamp.
Who acts: tiny shape · What happens: flit · To what, where: street lamp
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up» 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 (tiny shape), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | compound |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flits | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shape | det |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shape | amod |
| 10 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flits | nsubj |
| 11 | flits | flit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 flits | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 round | cc |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 round | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lamp | det |
| 16 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lamp | compound |
| 17 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flits | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flits | 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 | flit | present | a tiny shape | a street lamp | evening | round property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lamp=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:315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up.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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