Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 13
Madagascar had giant lemurs, some as heavy as a grown man or heavier, and some hung upside down in trees like sloths.
Who acts: Madagascar, some · What happens: have, grow, hang · To what, where: giant lemurs, trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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 (Madagascar, 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 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lemurs | amod |
| 4 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heavy | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 heavy | nsubj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 heavy | advmod |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lemurs | acl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heavy | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 heavier | cc |
| 14 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hung | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hung | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 hung | nsubj |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 19 | upside | upside | ADV | _ | 18 hung | advmod |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 upside | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hung | obl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 sloths | case |
| 24 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trees | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | 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 | have | past | Madagascar | giant lemurs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemur=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hang | past | some | trees like sloths | upside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location |
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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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