Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 15
A great bustard has three toes on each foot and no back toe, because it walks on open ground and never perches.
Who acts: great bustard, bustard · What happens: have, walk, not perch · To what, where: three toes, foot, open ground
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 (great bustard, bustard), 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 | 3 bustard | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bustard | amod |
| 3 | bustard | bustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 toes | nummod |
| 6 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 foot | det |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toes | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 toe | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 toe | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 toe | compound |
| 13 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toes | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walks | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 walks | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walks | nsubj |
| 17 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ground | amod |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walks | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 perches | cc |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 perches | advmod |
| 23 | perches | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 walks | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | 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 | have | present | a great bustard | three toes and no back toe | each foot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | |||
| 2 | walk | present | bustard | open ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not perch | present | bustard not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:15.
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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