White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 0
On top of a pole in a Ukrainian village sits a nest as wide as a kitchen table, and on it stands a white bird with black wing edges and long red legs: a white stork, leleka, back from Africa for the spring.
What happens: sit, stand · To what, where: nest, top, white bird, table
This is a sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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: 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 | _ | 2 top | case |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sits | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pole | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pole | det |
| 5 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 top | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 8 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 village | amod |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pole | nmod |
| 10 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nest | det |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sits | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 wide | advmod |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | _ | 12 nest | amod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 table | compound |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wide | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stands | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stands | cc |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stands | obl |
| 23 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sits | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bird | det |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bird | amod |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stands | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 edges | case |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 edges | amod |
| 29 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 edges | compound |
| 30 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bird | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 legs | cc |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 legs | amod |
| 33 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 legs | amod |
| 34 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 edges | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 stork | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 stork | det |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 stork | amod |
| 38 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bird | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 leleka | punct |
| 40 | leleka | leleka | X | _ | 38 stork | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Africa | punct |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 44 Africa | advmod |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 Africa | case |
| 44 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 stork | nmod |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 spring | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 spring | det |
| 47 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stork | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sits | 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 | sit | present | a nest | top of a pole in a Ukrainian village | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on top=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | a white bird | table | with black wing edges and long red legs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on it=Destination |
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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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): R7-rel-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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