The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 2
In summer a dragonfly zooms past, snatching flies with its legs held like a basket, and pond skaters run about on top of the water as if it were a trampoline.
Who acts: dragonfly, pond skaters · What happens: zoom, snatch, hold, run about, be · To what, where: flies, legs, top, trampoline
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 (dragonfly, pond skaters), 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 summer | case |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zooms | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dragonfly | det |
| 4 | dragonfly | dragonfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zooms | nsubj |
| 5 | zooms | zoom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | past | past | ADV | _ | 5 zooms | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 snatching | punct |
| 8 | snatching | snatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 zooms | advcl |
| 9 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 snatching | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 legs | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 snatching | obl |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 legs | acl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 basket | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 basket | det |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 run | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 run | cc |
| 19 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skaters | compound |
| 20 | skaters | skater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 run | nsubj |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 zooms | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 run | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 run | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 top | nmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 trampoline | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 trampoline | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 trampoline | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 trampoline | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 trampoline | det |
| 33 | trampoline | trampoline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 run | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 zooms | 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 | zoom | present | a dragonfly | summer | past property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | snatch | gerund | a dragonfly not said here | flies | with dragonfly's legs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | participle | dragonfly's legs not said here | like a basket | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run about | present | pond skaters | top of the water | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | is a | past | dragonfly | a trampoline | tree rules |
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:2.
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, R6-punct-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.
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