White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 9
Babies grow inside their mothers; the stork that delivers babies is an old European tale, perhaps because storks live close to people and return to the same nest.
Who acts: Babies, stork, storks · What happens: grow, deliver, be, live, return · To what, where: babies, old European tale
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 (Babies, stork, 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 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 mothers | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tale | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stork | det |
| 8 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tale | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 delivers | nsubj |
| 10 | delivers | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stork | acl:relcl |
| 11 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 delivers | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tale | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tale | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tale | amod |
| 15 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tale | amod |
| 16 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 live | punct |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 live | advmod |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 20 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 live | nsubj |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tale | advcl |
| 22 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 live | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 live | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 return | cc |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 live | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 nest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 nest | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 nest | amod |
| 30 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 return | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | 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 | grow | present | Babies | inside Babies's mothers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mother=Location | ||||
| 2 | deliver | present | the stork | babies | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the stork | a old European tale | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present | storks | to people; close, perhaps property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | present | storks not said here | to the same nest result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nest=Result |
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:9.
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): 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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