Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 11
The scientist Con Slobodchikoff reported that prairie dog alarm calls change for hawks, coyotes, dogs and people, and even with the colour of a person's shirt; how much the calls really describe is still argued.
Who acts: scientist Con Slobodchikoff, much calls · What happens: report, call, change, describe, argue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 (scientist Con Slobodchikoff, much calls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 scientist | det |
| 2 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Slobodchikoff | compound |
| 3 | Con | con | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Slobodchikoff | compound |
| 4 | Slobodchikoff | Slobodchikoff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reported | nsubj |
| 5 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 change | mark |
| 7 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dog | compound |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alarm | compound |
| 9 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | compound |
| 10 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 change | nsubj |
| 11 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reported | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hawks | case |
| 13 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 change | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coyotes | punct |
| 15 | coyotes | coyote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hawks | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dogs | punct |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hawks | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 people | cc |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hawks | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 colour | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 colour | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 colour | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 colour | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 colour | det |
| 25 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 shirt | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 person | det |
| 28 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 person | case |
| 30 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 colour | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 calls | punct |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 calls | amod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 calls | det |
| 35 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 describe | nsubj |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 describe | advmod |
| 37 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 argued | csubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 argued | aux:pass |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 argued | advmod |
| 40 | argued | argue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 calls | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | scientist Con Slobodchikoff | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present | with the colour of a person's shirt | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | change | present | for hawks and coyotes and dogs and people | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | describe | present | the much calls | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | argue speech: disagree | present · passive | still | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |
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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, 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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