Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 0
On a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine a sharp whistle rings out, and a fat furry animal standing up like a post dives underground.
Who acts: sharp whistle, fat furry animal · What happens: ring out, stand up, dive · To what, where: grassy hill
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 (sharp whistle, fat furry animal), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 3 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hill | amod |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rings | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Ukraine | case |
| 6 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Ukraine | amod |
| 7 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hill | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 whistle | det |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 whistle | amod |
| 10 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rings | nsubj |
| 11 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 rings | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dives | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dives | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 animal | det |
| 16 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animal | amod |
| 17 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animal | amod |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dives | nsubj |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 animal | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 standing | compound:prt |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 post | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 post | det |
| 23 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 standing | obl |
| 24 | dives | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rings | conj |
| 25 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 24 dives | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring out | present | a sharp whistle | a grassy hill in eastern Ukraine | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand up | gerund | a fat furry animal not said here | like a post | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dive | present | a fat furry animal | underground property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.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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