Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 2
Farmers always chose the calmest worms that made the best silk, generation after generation, until the silk moth could no longer live without people: it cannot fly properly and is not found anywhere in the wild.
Who acts: Farmers, calmest worms, silk moth, moth · What happens: choose, make, live, not fly, not find · To what, where: calmest worms, best silk
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 (Farmers, calmest worms, silk moth, moth), 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 | Farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 chose | advmod |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 worms | det |
| 5 | calmest | calm | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 worms | amod |
| 6 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chose | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worms | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 silk | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 silk | amod |
| 11 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 generation | punct |
| 13 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 silk | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 generation | case |
| 15 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 generation | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 live | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moth | det |
| 19 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 moth | compound |
| 20 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 live | aux |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 live | advmod |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chose | advcl |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 live | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 fly | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fly | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 fly | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 fly | advmod |
| 31 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 live | parataxis |
| 32 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 31 fly | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 found | cc |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux:pass |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 found | advmod |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 fly | conj |
| 37 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 found | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 wild | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wild | det |
| 40 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 anywhere | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Farmers | the calmest worms | always property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | the calmest worms | the best silk and generation after generation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silk=Product | ||||
| 3 | live | could | the silk moth | without people; long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not fly | can | moth | properly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not find | present · passive | moth not said here | anywhere property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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:2.
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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