Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 1
Put a pigeon feather under a magnifying glass: a shaft in the middle, hundreds of branches called barbs, and on them tiny barbules with hooks that zip together like Velcro.
Who acts: you, hundreds, hooks · What happens: put, magnify, call, zip · To what, where: pigeon feather, magnifying glass, barbs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, hundreds, hooks), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 3 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feather | compound |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 glass | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 7 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 glass | amod |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaft | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shaft | det |
| 11 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glass | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shaft | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hundreds | punct |
| 16 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shaft | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 branches | case |
| 18 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hundreds | nmod |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hundreds | acl |
| 20 | barbs | barb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 barbules | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 barbules | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 barbules | orphan |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 barbules | amod |
| 26 | barbules | barbule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shaft | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 hooks | case |
| 28 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 barbules | nmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 zip | nsubj |
| 30 | zip | zip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hooks | acl:relcl |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 zip | advmod |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 Velcro | case |
| 33 | Velcro | Velcro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 zip | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a pigeon feather | a magnifying glass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme under glass=Destination | |||
| 2 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | hundreds of branches not said here | barbs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | zip | present | hooks | like Velcro; together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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: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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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