Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 17
Fairyflies have feathery wings of a stalk and long hairs and row through the air almost as if it were syrup.
Who acts: Fairyflies, air · What happens: have, be · To what, where: feathery wings, syrup
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» 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 (Fairyflies, air), 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 | Fairyflies | fairyfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wings | amod |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stalk | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stalk | det |
| 7 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hairs | cc |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hairs | amod |
| 10 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stalk | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 row | cc |
| 12 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hairs | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 row | obl |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 syrup | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 syrup | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 syrup | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 syrup | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 syrup | cop |
| 21 | syrup | syrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 row | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Fairyflies | feathery wings of a stalk and long hairs and row | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | air | syrup | almost property | tree rules |
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:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.lesson:17.
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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