Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 12
Bumblebees were reported to roll little balls again and again with no sugar reward, one of the first reports of play in an insect.
What happens: report, roll · To what, where: Bumblebees, little balls, play
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: 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 | Bumblebees | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 roll | mark |
| 5 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reported | xcomp |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 balls | amod |
| 7 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roll | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 roll | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 again | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 again | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 reward | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 reward | det |
| 13 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reward | compound |
| 14 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roll | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 reward | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 reports | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reports | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 reports | amod |
| 20 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 play | case |
| 22 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reports | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 insect | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 insect | det |
| 25 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 play | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | 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 | report | past · passive | Bumblebees | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | roll | to-infinitive | little balls | again | with no sugar reward | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ball=Patient with reward=Instrument | |||
| 3 | report | play in a insect | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:12.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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