Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 6
Polar bears live only in the Arctic and penguins live in the southern half of the world, so in the wild they never meet.
Who acts: Polar bears, penguins, bears · What happens: live, not meet · To what, where: Arctic, southern half, wild
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 (Polar bears, penguins, bears), 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 | Polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bears | amod |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Arctic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Arctic | det |
| 7 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 live | cc |
| 9 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | nsubj |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 half | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 half | det |
| 13 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 half | amod |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 live | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 half | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 meet | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 meet | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wild | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wild | det |
| 22 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meet | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meet | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 meet | advmod |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Polar bears | the Arctic | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | penguins | the southern half of the world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in half=Location | ||||
| 3 | not meet | present | bears = bear | the wild | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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