The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 15

The ostrich is the largest living bird; it cannot fly but runs at about 70 km per hour on long legs with only two toes on each foot.

Who acts: ostrich · What happens: be, not fly, run · To what, where: largest living bird, 70 km

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 (ostrich), 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	2 ostrich	det
2	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
6	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 fly	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fly	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fly	advmod
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bird	parataxis
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 runs	cc
14	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 km	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 70	advmod
17	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 km	nummod
18	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 runs	obl
19	per	per	ADP	_	20 hour	case
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 km	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 legs	case
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 legs	amod
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 runs	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 toes	case
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 two	advmod
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 toes	nummod
27	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 runs	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 foot	case
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 foot	det
30	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 toes	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the ostrich	the largest living bird			tree rules
2	not fly	can	ostrich				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	present	ostrich not said here		70 km per hour	on long legs; with two toes on each foot	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory

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:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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