Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 10
In tests honeybees learned to fly past a certain number of landmarks, up to about four, to find sugar water.
Who acts: honeybees · What happens: learn, fly, find · To what, where: tests, certain number, sugar water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (honeybees), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 tests | case |
| 2 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learned | obl |
| 3 | honeybees | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fly | mark |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | xcomp |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 10 number | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 landmarks | case |
| 12 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 four | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 four | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 four | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 four | advmod |
| 17 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 number | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fly | advcl |
| 21 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | compound |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | honeybees | tests | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | honeybees not said here | a certain number of landmarks up four | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past number=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | honeybees not said here | sugar water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:10.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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