Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 7
Birds make no runny urine: their waste comes out as a white paste of uric acid, together with dark poo, from the same opening.
Who acts: Birds, waste · What happens: make, come out · To what, where: runny urine, same opening
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, waste), 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 | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 urine | det |
| 4 | runny | runny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 urine | amod |
| 5 | urine | urine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 waste | nmod:poss |
| 8 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 comes | compound:prt |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 paste | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 paste | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 paste | amod |
| 14 | paste | paste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 acid | case |
| 16 | uric | uric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 acid | compound |
| 17 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paste | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 poo | punct |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 poo | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 poo | case |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 poo | amod |
| 22 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paste | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 opening | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 opening | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 opening | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 opening | amod |
| 27 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Birds | no runny urine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent urine=Product | ||||
| 2 | come out | present | Birds's waste | the same opening | as a white paste of uric acid with dark poo | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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:7.
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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