The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 16
Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back.
Who acts: feet, warm blood, cold blood · What happens: stay, freeze, flow in, heat, come back · To what, where: ice, cold blood
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 (feet, warm blood, cold blood), 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 | Ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ducks | case |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 above | advmod |
| 6 | above | above | ADV | _ | 4 stay | advmod |
| 7 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stay | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ice | case |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 freezing | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 heats | mark |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blood | amod |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heats | nsubj |
| 13 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 blood | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 flowing | compound:prt |
| 15 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blood | det |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blood | amod |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flowing | obj |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 blood | acl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 coming | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | 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 | stay | present | Ducks's feet | above property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | freeze | gerund | Ducks's feet not said here | ice | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flow in | gerund | warm blood not said here | the cold blood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | heat | present | warm blood | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | come back | gerund | the cold blood not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:16.
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 ×2. 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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