Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 17
A ladybird's spots tell you its kind, not its age: the seven-spot ladybird always has seven, and there are 2-spot, 10-spot and 22-spot kinds.
Who acts: spots, spot ladybird, 2 spot · What happens: tell, have, be · To what, where: kind, you, seven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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 (spots, spot ladybird, 2 spot), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ladybird | det |
| 2 | ladybird | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spots | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 ladybird | case |
| 4 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 age | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 age | advmod |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 age | nmod:poss |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ladybird | det |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 spot | nummod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 seven | punct |
| 17 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ladybird | compound |
| 18 | ladybird | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 has | advmod |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | parataxis |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 has | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 are | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 are | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 are | expl |
| 25 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 has | conj |
| 26 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 spot | nummod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 2 | punct |
| 28 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 are | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 spot | punct |
| 30 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 spot | nummod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 10 | punct |
| 32 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spot | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 kinds | cc |
| 34 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 spot | nummod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 22 | punct |
| 36 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kinds | compound |
| 37 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spot | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | 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 | tell speech: assert | present | a ladybird's spots | ladybird's kind and ladybird's age | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kind=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | present | the spot ladybird | seven | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient | |||
| 3 | does | present | 2 spot and 10 spot and spot kinds | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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