White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 7
Stork nests are used year after year and grow huge, sometimes about 2 metres across; sparrows often live in the nest walls, and power companies build platforms on poles so nests do not touch the wires.
Who acts: sparrows, power companies, nests · What happens: used, grow, live, build, not touch · To what, where: Stork nests, nest walls, platforms, poles, wires
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 (sparrows, power companies, nests), 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 | Stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nests | compound |
| 2 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | used | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grow | cc |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | conj |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grow | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 metres | punct |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 metres | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 2 | advmod |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 metres | nummod |
| 15 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 huge | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | across | across | ADV | _ | 15 metres | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sparrows | punct |
| 18 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | nsubj |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 live | advmod |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 grow | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 walls | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 walls | det |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walls | compound |
| 24 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 build | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 build | cc |
| 27 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 companies | compound |
| 28 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 build | nsubj |
| 29 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | conj |
| 30 | platforms | platform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 build | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 poles | case |
| 32 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 build | obl |
| 33 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 37 touch | mark |
| 34 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 touch | nsubj |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 touch | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 touch | advmod |
| 37 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 build | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wires | det |
| 39 | wires | wire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 touch | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | used | present · passive | Stork nests | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | huge property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | present | sparrows | the nest walls | often property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location | |||
| 4 | build | present | power companies | platforms | poles | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent platform=Theme on pole=Source | |||
| 5 | not touch | present · do-support | nests | the wires | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme |
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:7.
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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