The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 0
A savanna is a warm grassland with trees scattered here and there, like the plains of the Serengeti in Africa, with a long dry season and a rainy season when the grass bursts back to life.
Who acts: savanna, grass · What happens: be, scatter, burst back · To what, where: warm grassland, trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (savanna, grass), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 savanna | det |
| 2 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grassland | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grassland | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 grassland | det |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grassland | amod |
| 6 | grassland | grassland | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grassland | nmod |
| 9 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 trees | acl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 scattered | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 there | cc |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 here | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plains | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 plains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plains | det |
| 16 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scattered | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Serengeti | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Serengeti | det |
| 19 | Serengeti | Serengeti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 plains | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Africa | case |
| 21 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 plains | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 season | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 season | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 season | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 season | amod |
| 26 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 season | amod |
| 27 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scattered | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 season | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 season | det |
| 30 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 season | amod |
| 31 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 season | conj |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 bursts | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 grass | det |
| 34 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bursts | nsubj |
| 35 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 season | acl:relcl |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 bursts | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bursts | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grassland | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a savanna | a warm grassland | with trees | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scatter | participle | trees not said here | here | season | like the plains of the Serengeti in Africa | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | burst back | present | the grass | to life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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:004-the-savanna.lesson:0.
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, 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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