Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 0
In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so loudly that the tray sounds like soft rain.
Who acts: small white caterpillars, tray · What happens: munch, sound · To what, where: mulberry leaves, school box
This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (small white caterpillars, tray), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 box | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | compound |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 munch | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 box | punct |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 caterpillars | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 caterpillars | amod |
| 8 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 munch | nsubj |
| 9 | munch | munch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | mulberry | mulberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | compound |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 munch | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 loudly | advmod |
| 13 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 9 munch | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 sounds | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tray | det |
| 16 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sounds | nsubj |
| 17 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 loudly | advcl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 rain | case |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rain | amod |
| 20 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sounds | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 munch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | munch | present | small white caterpillars | mulberry leaves | a school box | loudly property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||
| 2 | sound | present | the tray | like soft rain | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:0.
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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