Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 10
Crows in Japan drop walnuts at traffic lights for cars to crack, and crows can remember a human face for years.
Who acts: Crows · What happens: drop, crack, remember · To what, where: walnuts, traffic lights, human face
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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 (Crows), 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 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drop | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 walnuts | case |
| 3 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Crows | nmod |
| 4 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | walnuts | walnut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drop | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 lights | case |
| 7 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lights | compound |
| 8 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drop | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cars | case |
| 10 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lights | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 crack | mark |
| 12 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drop | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remember | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remember | cc |
| 15 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 remember | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 remember | aux |
| 17 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drop | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 face | det |
| 19 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 face | amod |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remember | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 remember | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | Crows Japan | walnuts | traffic lights for cars | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walnut=Theme at light=Destination | |||
| 2 | crack | to-infinitive | Crows Japan not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remember | can | crows | a human face | year | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=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:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:10.
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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