Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 5
Scientists think these chirps are a kind of laughter.
Who acts: Scientists, chirps · What happens: think, be · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Scientists, chirps), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 chirps | det |
| 4 | chirps | chirp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 laughter | case |
| 9 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Scientists | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this chirps | a kind | of laughter | tree rules |
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: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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