Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 8
The steppe marmot, bobak, stands on its back legs and whistles to warn its family of eagles and foxes.
Who acts: steppe marmot · What happens: stand, whistle, warn · To what, where: back legs, family
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 (steppe marmot), 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 | 3 marmot | det |
| 2 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marmot | compound |
| 3 | marmot | marmot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bobak | punct |
| 5 | bobak | bobak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marmot | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 marmot | punct |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 legs | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 legs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 legs | compound |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stands | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whistles | cc |
| 13 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stands | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 warn | mark |
| 15 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 whistles | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 warn | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eagles | case |
| 19 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 family | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 foxes | cc |
| 21 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eagles | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stands | 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 | stand | present | the steppe marmot | marmot's back legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | ||||
| 2 | whistle | present | the steppe marmot not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | the steppe marmot not said here | marmot's family of eagles and foxes | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient |
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: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): 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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