Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 14
Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.
Who acts: Woodpeckers · What happens: hammer up, find, dig, drum, claim · To what, where: wood, grubs, nests, territory
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 (Woodpeckers), 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 | Woodpeckers | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hammer | nsubj |
| 2 | hammer | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hammer | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 hammer | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 times | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 20 | advmod |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hammer | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 second | det |
| 10 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 times | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hammer | advcl |
| 13 | grubs | grub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nests | punct |
| 15 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 find | conj |
| 16 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dig | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dig | cc |
| 18 | drum | drum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grubs | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 claim | mark |
| 20 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drum | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 territory | det |
| 22 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 claim | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hammer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hammer up | present | Woodpeckers | wood | time | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Woodpeckers not said here | grubs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grub=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dig | infinitive | Woodpeckers not said here | nests | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drum | infinitive | Woodpeckers not said here | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | Woodpeckers not said here | a territory | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent territory=Topic |
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:14.
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): R7-rel-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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