China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 15
Pairs of red-crowned cranes dance and call in duets and stay together for life, and young cranes dance too, maybe as practice.
Who acts: Pairs, young cranes · What happens: crown, dance, call, stay together · To what, where: duets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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 (Pairs, young cranes), 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 | Pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dance | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cranes | case |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cranes | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 red | punct |
| 5 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cranes | amod |
| 6 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pairs | nmod |
| 7 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 call | cc |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 duets | case |
| 11 | duets | duet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 call | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stay | cc |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 stay | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dance | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dance | cc |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cranes | amod |
| 20 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dance | nsubj |
| 21 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | conj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 dance | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 too | punct |
| 24 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 21 dance | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 practice | case |
| 26 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dance | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed hedge=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | dance | present | Pairs of red crowned cranes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present | Pairs of red crowned cranes not said here | duets | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stay together | present | Pairs of red crowned cranes not said here | for life; together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dance | present | young cranes | as practice; maybe property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:15.
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): R6-punct-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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