Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real, sentence 12
The real bald eagle has a weak, high chattering call, so films often use the scream of the red-tailed hawk instead, and so many films do this that most people think eagles really scream that way.
Who acts: real bald eagle, films, many films, most people, eagles, tailed hawk · What happens: have, use, tail, do, think, scream · To what, where: weak high chattering call, scream, this, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» 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 (real bald eagle, films, many films, most people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 3 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 call | det |
| 7 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 call | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 weak | punct |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 call | amod |
| 10 | chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | compound |
| 11 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 use | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 use | advmod |
| 14 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | nsubj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 use | advmod |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scream | det |
| 18 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 use | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hawk | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hawk | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tailed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 23 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hawk | amod |
| 24 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scream | nmod |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 16 use | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 do | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 do | cc |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 many | advmod |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 films | amod |
| 30 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 do | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 use | parataxis |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 do | obj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 think | mark |
| 34 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 people | amod |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 think | nsubj |
| 36 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 do | advcl |
| 37 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 scream | nsubj |
| 38 | really | really | ADV | _ | 39 scream | advmod |
| 39 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 think | ccomp |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 way | det |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 scream | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the real bald eagle | a weak high chattering call | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | present | films | the scream of the tailed hawk | instead, often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Patient | |||
| 3 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | do | present | many films | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | most people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | scream speech: express | present | eagles | that way | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | scream | the tailed hawk | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.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.
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