Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 19
Przewalski's horses are short and stocky, sandy brown, with a stiff mane that stands up like a brush.
Who acts: horses, stiff mane · What happens: be, stand up
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 (horses, stiff mane), 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 | Przewalski | Przewalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 horses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Przewalski | case |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 short | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | cop |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stocky | cc |
| 7 | stocky | stocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 short | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brown | punct |
| 9 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brown | amod |
| 10 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 short | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mane | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 mane | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mane | det |
| 14 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mane | amod |
| 15 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 short | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stands | nsubj |
| 17 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mane | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 stands | compound:prt |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 brush | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 brush | det |
| 21 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stands | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 short | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Przewalski's horses | with a stiff mane; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Przewalski's horses not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stand up | present | a stiff mane | like a brush | 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:19.
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): no change. 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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