City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings, sentence 8
Starlings copy other birds, phones, car alarms and even human words, and Mozart kept a pet starling that sang a tune from his piano music, a little changed.
Who acts: Starlings, Mozart, pet starling, tune · What happens: copy, keep, sing, change · To what, where: other birds, pet starling, tune, piano music, little
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 (Starlings, Mozart, pet starling, tune), 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 | Starlings | starling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 copy | nsubj |
| 2 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birds | amod |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 copy | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 phones | punct |
| 6 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 birds | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 alarms | punct |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alarms | compound |
| 9 | alarms | alarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 birds | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 words | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 words | advmod |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 birds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kept | cc |
| 16 | Mozart | Mozart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 copy | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 starling | det |
| 19 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 starling | compound |
| 20 | starling | starling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sang | nsubj |
| 22 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 starling | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tune | det |
| 24 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sang | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 music | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 music | nmod:poss |
| 27 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 music | compound |
| 28 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tune | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 changed | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 little | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 tune | acl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 copy | 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 | copy | present | Starlings | other birds and phones and car alarms and human words | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Mozart | a pet starling | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starling=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | a pet starling | a tune | Mozart's piano music | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme | |||
| 4 | change | participle | a tune not said here | a little | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.lesson:8.
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. 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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