How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 6
Some famous sleep facts are myths, because they came from animals in zoos, which have less to do and no danger.
Who acts: famous sleep facts, facts, zoos · What happens: be, come, have, do · To what, where: myths, less
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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 (famous sleep facts, facts, zoos), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 facts | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 facts | amod |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 facts | compound |
| 4 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 myths | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 myths | cop |
| 6 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 myths | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 animals | case |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 zoos | case |
| 14 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 animals | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 zoos | acl:relcl |
| 18 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 less | acl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 danger | cc |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 danger | det |
| 23 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 myths | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some famous sleep facts | myths | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | facts = fact | from animals in zoos | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from animal=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present | zoos | less | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:6.
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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