The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 4
Cartoon ducks gobble whole loaves of bread and cartoon swans break people's arms.
Who acts: Cartoon ducks, cartoon swans · What happens: gobble, break · To what, where: arms
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 (Cartoon ducks, cartoon swans), 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 | Cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ducks | compound |
| 2 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gobble | nsubj |
| 3 | gobble | gobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 loaves | amod |
| 5 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gobble | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loaves | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 break | cc |
| 9 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swans | compound |
| 10 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 break | nsubj |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gobble | conj |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 people | case |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 break | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gobble | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobble | present | Cartoon ducks | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | break | present | cartoon swans | people's arms | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient |
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:4.
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): 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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