Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 17
The capercaillie, hlukhar or «the deaf one» in Ukrainian, is the biggest grouse; for a moment in its clicking spring song it seems not to hear, and it is now rare.
Who acts: capercaillie, it, song, grouse · What happens: be, seem, not hear, sing · To what, where: biggest grouse
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (capercaillie, it, song, grouse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 capercaillie | det |
| 2 | capercaillie | capercaillie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grouse | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hlukhar | punct |
| 4 | hlukhar | hlukhar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 capercaillie | conj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 capercaillie | conj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Ukrainian | case |
| 12 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 capercaillie | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grouse | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grouse | det |
| 16 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 grouse | amod |
| 17 | grouse | grouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 seems | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seems | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 song | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 song | nmod:poss |
| 24 | clicking | clicking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 song | compound |
| 25 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 song | compound |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moment | nmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seems | nsubj |
| 28 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grouse | parataxis |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 hear | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 hear | mark |
| 31 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seems | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rare | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 rare | cc |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 rare | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 rare | cop |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | _ | 37 rare | advmod |
| 37 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grouse | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 grouse | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the capercaillie and hlukhar or the deaf one in Ukrainian | the biggest grouse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | it | moment | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | song | now | rare property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sing | grouse | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.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 ×2. 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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