Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 6
Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.
Who acts: Many bird bones · What happens: be, fill, connect · To what, where: some, air
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 (Many bird bones), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bones | amod |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bones | compound |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hollow | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hollow | cop |
| 5 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struts | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 struts | case |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 struts | amod |
| 9 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struts | compound |
| 10 | struts | strut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hollow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | aux:pass |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hollow | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obl |
| 18 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 air | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lungs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lungs | det |
| 21 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 connected | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hollow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many bird bones | with thin crossing struts; hollow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fill | present · passive | some | with air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with air=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | connect | participle | air not said here | to the lungs | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to lung=Co-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:6.
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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