City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings, sentence 0
A city is full of bird homes if you look like a bird: roofs and wall gaps are caves, church towers are cliffs, café tables are feeding grounds and street lights are a second sunset.
Who acts: city, you, roofs, church towers, café tables, street lights · What happens: be, look, cave, feed · To what, where: cliffs, grounds, second sunset
This is a sentence of the lesson «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» 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 (city, you, roofs, church towers), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 homes | case |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 homes | compound |
| 7 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 look | nsubj |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | advcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 roofs | punct |
| 15 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 caves | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gaps | cc |
| 17 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gaps | compound |
| 18 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roofs | conj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cliffs | cop |
| 20 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bird | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cliffs | punct |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 towers | compound |
| 23 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cliffs | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cliffs | cop |
| 25 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 caves | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tables | punct |
| 27 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tables | compound |
| 28 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 feeding | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 feeding | aux |
| 30 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 caves | conj |
| 31 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 30 feeding | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sunset | cc |
| 33 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lights | compound |
| 34 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sunset | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 sunset | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 sunset | det |
| 37 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 sunset | amod |
| 38 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caves | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | 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 | a city | of bird homes; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look a condition, not said to happen | present | you | like a bird | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cave | roofs and wall gaps | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | church towers | cliffs | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feed | present · progressive | café tables | grounds | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | street lights | a second sunset | 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:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.lesson:0.
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. 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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