Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 1
They kill with their feet and use the beak only to tear food.
Who acts: Eagles · What happens: kill, use, tear · To what, where: beak, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» 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 (Eagles), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 use | cc |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kill | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beak | det |
| 9 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 tear | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tear | mark |
| 12 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | advcl |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tear | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Eagles = eagle | with Eagles's feet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | use | present | Eagles = eagle not said here | the beak | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tear | to-infinitive | Eagles = eagle not said here | food | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location food=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:323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.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): 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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