The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 8
The seven-spot ladybird is named for its spots; the number of spots does not show its age, and its bright colours warn birds that it tastes bad.
Who acts: number, bright colours, control · What happens: name, not show, warn, taste · To what, where: spot ladybird, age, birds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (number, bright colours, control), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladybird | det |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 spot | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 seven | punct |
| 4 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ladybird | compound |
| 5 | ladybird | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | aux:pass |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 spots | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spots | nmod:poss |
| 10 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 named | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spots | case |
| 15 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 number | nmod |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 show | advmod |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 named | parataxis |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 age | nmod:poss |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 warn | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 warn | cc |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 colours | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 colours | amod |
| 25 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 warn | nsubj |
| 26 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | conj |
| 27 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 warn | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 tastes | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tastes | nsubj |
| 30 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 warn | ccomp |
| 31 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tastes | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · passive | the spot ladybird | for control's spots | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not show | present · do-support | the number of spots | control's age | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | control's bright colours | birds | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | taste | present | control | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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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