White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 5
In autumn they fly about 10,000 kilometres to Africa, soaring on rising warm air instead of flapping.
Who acts: parents · What happens: fly, soar, rise, flap · To what, where: 10,000 kilometres, Africa, rising warm air
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: who acts (parents), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 10,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kilometres | nummod |
| 7 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soaring | punct |
| 11 | soaring | soar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fly | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 13 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 air | amod |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 air | amod |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soaring | obl |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 flapping | mark |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 instead | fixed |
| 18 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 soaring | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | parents = parent | 10,000 kilometres | Africa | autumn | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to africa=Result | ||
| 2 | soar | gerund | parents = parent not said here | rising warm air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | flap | gerund | parents = parent not said here | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.lesson:5.
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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