Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 5
Picture a beach where hermit crabs line up by size beside one big empty shell.
Who acts: you, hermit crabs · What happens: picture, line up · To what, where: beach, one big empty shell
This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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, hermit crabs), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beach | det |
| 3 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 line | advmod |
| 5 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crabs | compound |
| 6 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 line | nsubj |
| 7 | line | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beach | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 line | compound:prt |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 size | case |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 line | obl |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 15 shell | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 shell | nummod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shell | amod |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shell | amod |
| 15 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 line | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | 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 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a beach | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | ||||
| 2 | line up | present | hermit crabs | one big empty shell | by size | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:5.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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.
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