Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real, sentence 16
Some scenes are filmed in zoos or wildlife parks, such as polar bear cubs in a den, because filming inside a wild den would harm the animals; people argued whether this should have been said during the show.
Who acts: filming, people · What happens: film, harm, argue, say · To what, where: scenes, zoos, wild den, animals, this · 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 (filming, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 scenes | det |
| 2 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 filmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 zoos | case |
| 6 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filmed | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 parks | cc |
| 8 | wildlife | wildlife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parks | compound |
| 9 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 zoos | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cubs | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 cubs | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bear | amod |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cubs | compound |
| 15 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 zoos | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 den | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 den | det |
| 18 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cubs | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 filming | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 harm | mark |
| 21 | filming | film | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 harm | csubj |
| 22 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 25 den | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 den | det |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 den | amod |
| 25 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filming | obl |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 harm | aux |
| 27 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 filmed | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 animals | det |
| 29 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 harm | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 argued | punct |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 argued | nsubj |
| 32 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filmed | parataxis |
| 33 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 38 said | mark |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 said | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 said | aux |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 said | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 said | aux:pass |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 argued | ccomp |
| 39 | during | during | ADP | _ | 41 show | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 show | det |
| 41 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 said | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filmed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | present · passive | some scenes | zoos such bear cubs in a den or wildlife parks | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in zoo=Destination | ||||
| 2 | film | gerund | a wild den | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inside den=Destination | |||||
| 3 | harm | would | filming | the animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | argue speech: disagree | past | people | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | should · perfect · passive | this | during the show | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:16.
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 ×2. 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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