Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 17
Fancy goldfish with bubble eyes, puffy heads or double tails were bred by people, and some swim slowly or see badly.
Who acts: people, some · What happens: breed, swim, see · To what, where: Fancy goldfish
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 (people, some), 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 | Fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 goldfish | amod |
| 2 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bred | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | compound |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goldfish | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heads | punct |
| 7 | puffy | puffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heads | amod |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 heads | cc |
| 10 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tails | amod |
| 11 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goldfish | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bred | aux:pass |
| 13 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bred | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swim | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swim | cc |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 swim | nsubj |
| 19 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bred | conj |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 19 swim | advmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 swim | conj |
| 23 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 see | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 bred | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | past · passive | people | Fancy goldfish with bubble eyes or puffy heads and double tails | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | present | some | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | present | some not said here | badly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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