A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 15
In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs.
Who acts: farmers, gulls · What happens: plough, sow, follow, snatch · To what, where: winter wheat, plough, worms
This is a sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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 (farmers, gulls), 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 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plough | obl |
| 3 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 plough | nsubj |
| 4 | plough | plough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sow | cc |
| 6 | sow | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plough | conj |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wheat | compound |
| 8 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sow | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 barley | cc |
| 10 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wheat | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 follow | cc |
| 13 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 follow | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rooks | cc |
| 15 | rooks | rook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gulls | conj |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plough | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plough | det |
| 18 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 follow | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 snatch | mark |
| 20 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 follow | advcl |
| 21 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 snatch | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grubs | cc |
| 23 | grubs | grub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 worms | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plough | 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 | plough | present | farmers | autumn | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sow | present | farmers not said here | winter wheat or barley | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | gulls and rooks | the plough | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme | ||||
| 4 | snatch | to-infinitive | gulls and rooks not said here | worms and grubs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:15.
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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