Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 2
Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.
Who acts: you, bone · What happens: snap, be · To what, where: chicken bone
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, bone), 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 | Snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bone | det |
| 3 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bone | compound |
| 4 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snap | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 dinner | case |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dinner | compound |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bone | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hollow | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hollow | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hollow | cop |
| 11 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bone | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struts | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 struts | case |
| 14 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 struts | amod |
| 15 | struts | strut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hollow | obl |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 struts | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 bridge | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bridge | det |
| 19 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 light | punct |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struts | appos |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 strong | cc |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 light | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snap | 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 | snap | imperative | you not said here | a chicken bone | from Sunday dinner | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient from dinner=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | bone | with thin struts like a bridge; hollow property | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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