White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 6
Warm air hardly rises over cold sea, so Ukrainian storks go round the Black Sea, not across it.
Who acts: Warm air, Ukrainian storks · What happens: rise, go · To what, where: cold sea, 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 (Warm air, Ukrainian storks), 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 | Warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 air | amod |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rises | nsubj |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 rises | advmod |
| 4 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rises | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 storks | amod |
| 11 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rises | parataxis |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 Sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sea | det |
| 15 | Black | Black | PROPN | _ | 16 Sea | flat |
| 16 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 it | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 it | advmod |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | Warm air | cold sea | hardly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Location | |||
| 2 | go | present | Ukrainian storks | air | round the Black Sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme round sea=Initial_Location across 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:6.
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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