White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 8
The white stork, leleka in Ukrainian, stands for home and spring, and Ukraine has tens of thousands of pairs, one of the biggest numbers in Europe; old people say storks never nest by a house of quarrels.
Who acts: white stork, Ukraine, old people, storks · What happens: stand, have, say, not nest · To what, where: tens · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (white stork, Ukraine, old people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stork | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stork | amod |
| 3 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leleka | punct |
| 5 | leleka | leleka | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 stork | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Ukrainian | case |
| 7 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leleka | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stork | punct |
| 9 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stands | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spring | cc |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 home | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 has | cc |
| 16 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stands | conj |
| 18 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thousands | case |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tens | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pairs | case |
| 22 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thousands | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 tens | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 numbers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 numbers | det |
| 27 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 numbers | amod |
| 28 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Europe | case |
| 30 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 numbers | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 say | punct |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 say | nsubj |
| 34 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stands | parataxis |
| 35 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 nest | nsubj |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 nest | advmod |
| 37 | nest | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 say | ccomp |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 house | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 house | det |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 nest | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 quarrels | case |
| 42 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 house | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 white stork | for home and spring | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for home=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Ukraine | tens of thousands of pairs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | old people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not nest | present | storks | by a house of quarrels | vn berry-13.7 «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: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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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