Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 19
Goldfish dumped in lakes can grow as big as a football, eat other fishes' eggs, stir up mud and crowd out native fish, and over generations they often turn dull again, partly because birds spot and catch the bright ones first.
Who acts: Goldfish, birds · What happens: dump, grow, eat, stir up, crowd out, turn · To what, where: Goldfish, lakes, eggs, mud, native fish, generations
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 (Goldfish, birds), 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 | Goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | dumped | dump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Goldfish | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lakes | case |
| 4 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dumped | obl |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grow | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 football | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 football | det |
| 11 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 big | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grow | conj |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fishes | amod |
| 15 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 fishes | case |
| 17 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stir | punct |
| 19 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grow | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 stir | compound:prt |
| 21 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stir | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crowd | cc |
| 23 | crowd | crowd | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stir | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 crowd | compound:prt |
| 25 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fish | amod |
| 26 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crowd | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turn | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 turn | cc |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 generations | case |
| 30 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 turn | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turn | nsubj |
| 32 | often | often | ADV | _ | 33 turn | advmod |
| 33 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | conj |
| 34 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 turn | xcomp |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 turn | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 spot | punct |
| 37 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 40 spot | advmod |
| 38 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 40 spot | mark |
| 39 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 spot | nsubj |
| 40 | spot | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 turn | advcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 catch | cc |
| 42 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 spot | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 ones | det |
| 44 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 ones | amod |
| 45 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 catch | obj |
| 46 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 42 catch | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | dump | participle | Goldfish not said here | lakes | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in lake=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | grow | can | Goldfish | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | infinitive | Goldfish not said here | other fishes's eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stir up | infinitive | Goldfish not said here | mud | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mud=Patient | ||||
| 5 | crowd out | infinitive | Goldfish not said here | native fish | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme fish=Destination | ||||
| 6 | turn | present | Goldfish | over generations; again | dull, often property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over generation=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | spot | present | birds | partly property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 8 | catch | present | birds not said here | the bright ones | first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:19.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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