City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings, sentence 11
Swifts nest under roof tiles and come back to the same hole after wintering in Africa.
Who acts: Swifts, same hole · What happens: nest, come back, winter · To what, where: roof tiles, same hole, Africa
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 (Swifts, same hole), 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 | Swifts | swift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nest | nsubj |
| 2 | nest | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 tiles | case |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tiles | compound |
| 5 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nest | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 nest | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hole | amod |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 wintering | mark |
| 14 | wintering | winter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hole | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Africa | case |
| 16 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wintering | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nest | present | Swifts | roof tiles | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come back | present | Swifts not said here | the same hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | winter | gerund | the same hole not said here | Africa | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location |
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:11.
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): R8-pos-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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