Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 16
Piglets, owls, rabbits and donkeys could live in an English wood, but kangaroos come from Australia and tigers from Asia; a real tiger uses its tail for balance, while kangaroos really do use their tails as a fifth leg when moving slowly.
Who acts: Piglets, kangaroos, real tiger · What happens: live, come, use, move · To what, where: English wood, Australia, tail, tails
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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 (Piglets, kangaroos, real tiger), 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 | Piglets | piglet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 owls | punct |
| 3 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Piglets | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rabbits | punct |
| 5 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Piglets | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 donkeys | cc |
| 7 | donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Piglets | conj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 12 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wood | amod |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 16 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Australia | case |
| 19 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tigers | cc |
| 21 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Australia | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Asia | case |
| 23 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tigers | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 uses | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tiger | det |
| 26 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tiger | amod |
| 27 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 uses | nsubj |
| 28 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | parataxis |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tail | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 uses | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 balance | case |
| 32 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 uses | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 use | punct |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 use | mark |
| 35 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 use | nsubj |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 38 use | advmod |
| 37 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 use | aux |
| 38 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 uses | advcl |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 tails | nmod:poss |
| 40 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 use | obj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 leg | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 leg | det |
| 43 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 leg | amod |
| 44 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 use | obl |
| 45 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 moving | advmod |
| 46 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 use | advcl |
| 47 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 46 moving | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | could | Piglets and owls and rabbits and donkeys | a English wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | present | kangaroos | Australia and tigers from Asia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from australia=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | use | present | a real tiger | wood's tail | for balance | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tail=Theme for balance=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | use | present · do-support | kangaroos | kangaroos's tails | as a fifth leg | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tail=Duration as leg=Attribute | |||
| 5 | move | gerund | kangaroos not said here | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.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 ×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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