Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 13
Red kites, with forked tails, nearly died out in Britain, leaving only a few pairs in Wales; from 1989 people brought kites in from other countries, and now there are thousands.
Who acts: Red kites, people, thousands · What happens: fork, die out, leave, bring, be · To what, where: few pairs, Wales, kites, 1989
This is a sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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 (Red kites, people, thousands), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kites | amod |
| 2 | kites | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 died | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tails | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 tails | case |
| 5 | forked | fork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tails | amod |
| 6 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kites | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 died | punct |
| 8 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 died | advmod |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 died | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Britain | case |
| 12 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 died | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 died | advcl |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 pairs | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pairs | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pairs | amod |
| 18 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leaving | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Wales | case |
| 20 | Wales | wale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pairs | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 1989 | case |
| 23 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 brought | obl |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 died | parataxis |
| 26 | kites | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brought | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 countries | case |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 countries | amod |
| 30 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brought | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 are | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 are | cc |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 are | advmod |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 are | expl |
| 35 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | conj |
| 36 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 are | nsubj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 died | 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 | fork | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | die out | past | Red kites with forked tails | in Britain; nearly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in britain=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Red kites with forked tails not said here | a few pairs | Wales | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pair=Theme in wale=Location | |||
| 4 | bring | past | people | kites | 1989 | from other countries | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent kite=Theme from 1989=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | does | present | thousands | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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