The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 7
Games and films invent monsters because they are fun and scary, not because they are true.
Who acts: Games · What happens: invent, be, not be · To what, where: monsters
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 (Games), 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 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 invent | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 films | cc |
| 3 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Games | conj |
| 4 | invent | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 invent | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 fun | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fun | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fun | cop |
| 9 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 invent | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scary | cc |
| 11 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fun | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 true | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 true | advmod |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 true | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 true | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 true | cop |
| 17 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fun | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invent | 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 | invent | present | Games and films | monsters | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Games = game | fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Games = game not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not is | present | Games = game | true property | tree rules |
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:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.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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