The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 4

Over it all, on a warm July afternoon, the air fills with flying ants, and swifts scream over the rooftops catching them; these birds eat, drink and even sleep on the wing.

Who acts: air, swifts, rooftops, birds · What happens: fill, fly, scream, catch, eat, drink · To what, where: birth, all, rooftops, ants, wing

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 (air, swifts, rooftops, birds), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	3 all	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fills	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fills	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 afternoon	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 afternoon	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 afternoon	amod
8	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 afternoon	compound
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fills	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 afternoon	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fills	nsubj
13	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 ants	case
15	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 ants	amod
16	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fills	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 scream	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 scream	cc
19	swifts	swift	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 scream	nsubj
20	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fills	conj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 rooftops	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rooftops	det
23	rooftops	rooftop	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 scream	obl
24	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 rooftops	acl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 catching	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 birds	det
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eat	nsubj
29	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fills	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drink	punct
31	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sleep	cc
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 sleep	advmod
34	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 wing	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wing	det
37	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sleep	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fills	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	present	the air	birth	all	afternoon	with flying ants	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ant=Instrument
2	fly	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express	present	swifts		the rooftops			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rooftop=Location
4	catch	gerund	the rooftops not said here	ants = ant				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	eat	present	this birds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	present	this birds not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	present	this birds not said here		the wing			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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