Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 0
Birds are the only animals alive today with feathers, and nearly every part of a bird is built to be light and strong for flying.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: be, build, fly · To what, where: only animals, part
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 (Birds), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 7 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 animals | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 feathers | case |
| 9 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 built | cc |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 every | advmod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 part | det |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 built | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bird | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 built | aux:pass |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 animals | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 light | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 light | cop |
| 22 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 built | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 strong | cc |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 light | conj |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 flying | mark |
| 26 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 light | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 animals | 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 | is a | present | Birds | the only animals | today | with feathers | tree rules | ||
| 2 | build | present · passive | every part of a bird | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | light property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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