Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 5
Later breeders chose odd shapes too, such as bubble eyes and double tails.
Who acts: breeders · What happens: choose · To what, where: odd shapes
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 (breeders), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 chose | advmod |
| 2 | breeders | breeder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shapes | amod |
| 5 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chose | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 chose | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eyes | compound |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shapes | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tails | cc |
| 13 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tails | amod |
| 14 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eyes | conj |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | breeders | odd shapes | such bubble eyes and double tails; late property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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:5.
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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