The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 1
In spring a mallard mother marches a wobbly line of ducklings across the path while a swan hisses at anyone near its nest.
Who acts: mallard mother, swan · What happens: march, hiss · To what, where: wobbly line, path, anyone
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 (mallard mother, swan), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spring | case |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marches | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 4 | mallard | mallard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mother | compound |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marches | nsubj |
| 6 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 8 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 line | amod |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marches | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ducklings | case |
| 11 | ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 line | nmod |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marches | obl |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 hisses | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 swan | det |
| 17 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hisses | nsubj |
| 18 | hisses | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 marches | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 anyone | case |
| 20 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 hisses | obl |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 nest | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nest | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 anyone | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present | a mallard mother | a wobbly line of ducklings | the path | spring | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent line=Theme across path=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | hiss | present | a swan | anyone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at anyone=Location |
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:1.
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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