Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 2
Some birds are brainy: a crow drops walnuts on a road for cars to crack, a jay remembers where it buried thousands of acorns, and an African grey parrot can name colours.
Who acts: birds, crow, jay, African grey parrot · What happens: be, drop, crack, remember, bury, name · To what, where: walnuts, road, thousands, colours
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 (birds, crow, jay, African grey parrot), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brainy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brainy | cop |
| 4 | brainy | brainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 drops | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crow | det |
| 7 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drops | nsubj |
| 8 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brainy | parataxis |
| 9 | walnuts | walnut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drops | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drops | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 cars | case |
| 14 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 road | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 crack | mark |
| 16 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cars | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remembers | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 jay | det |
| 19 | jay | jay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remembers | nsubj |
| 20 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drops | conj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 buried | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 buried | nsubj |
| 23 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 remembers | advcl |
| 24 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 buried | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 acorns | case |
| 26 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thousands | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 name | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 name | cc |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 parrot | det |
| 30 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 parrot | amod |
| 31 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 parrot | amod |
| 32 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 name | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 name | aux |
| 34 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drops | conj |
| 35 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 name | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brainy | 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 | is | present | some birds | brainy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop | present | a crow | walnuts | a road for cars | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walnut=Theme on road=Destination | |||
| 3 | crack | to-infinitive | a crow not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | remember | present | a jay | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bury | past | jay | thousands of acorns | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | name | can | a African grey parrot | colours | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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