The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 0
A park pond is a small world that changes with the seasons, and if you visit it every month you meet the same neighbours doing different things.
Who acts: park pond, small world, you, same neighbours · What happens: be, change, visit, meet, do · To what, where: small world, pond, same neighbours, different things
This is a sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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 (park pond, small world, you, same neighbours), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pond | det |
| 2 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pond | compound |
| 3 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 world | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 world | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 world | amod |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 changes | nsubj |
| 9 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 world | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 seasons | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seasons | det |
| 12 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 changes | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meet | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 meet | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 visit | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 visit | nsubj |
| 17 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 meet | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 visit | obj |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 month | det |
| 20 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 meet | nsubj |
| 22 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 world | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 neighbours | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 neighbours | amod |
| 25 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 meet | obj |
| 26 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 neighbours | acl |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 things | amod |
| 28 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 doing | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 world | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a park pond | a small world | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present | a small world | season | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | visit a condition, not said to happen | present | you | pond | month | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | meet | present | you | the same neighbours | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | gerund | the same neighbours not said here | different things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:0.
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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