The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 13
The white stork nests on poles and chimneys in Ukrainian villages, builds huge stick nests it uses year after year, flies to Africa for the winter and returns in spring; many Ukrainians see it as a sign of good luck and home.
Who acts: white stork nests, mushroom · What happens: build, use, fly, return, see, sign · To what, where: huge stick nests, Africa, mushroom, good luck
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (white stork nests, mushroom), 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 nests | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nests | amod |
| 3 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nests | compound |
| 4 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 see | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 poles | case |
| 6 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nests | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chimneys | cc |
| 8 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poles | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 villages | case |
| 10 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 villages | amod |
| 11 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chimneys | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 builds | punct |
| 13 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nests | conj |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nests | amod |
| 15 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nests | compound |
| 16 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 builds | obj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 uses | nsubj |
| 18 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 nests | acl:relcl |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 uses | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 year | case |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 year | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flies | punct |
| 23 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 builds | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Africa | case |
| 25 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 flies | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 winter | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 winter | det |
| 28 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flies | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 returns | cc |
| 30 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 flies | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 spring | case |
| 32 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 returns | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Ukrainians | amod |
| 35 | Ukrainians | ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 see | nsubj |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 sign | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 sign | det |
| 40 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 luck | case |
| 42 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 luck | amod |
| 43 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sign | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 home | cc |
| 45 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 luck | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | the white stork nests on poles and chimneys in Ukrainian villages not said here | huge stick nests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | ||||
| 2 | use | present | mushroom | huge stick nests not said here | year | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient | |||
| 3 | fly | present | the white stork nests on poles and chimneys in Ukrainian villages not said here | Africa | winter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to africa=Result | |||
| 4 | return | present | the white stork nests on poles and chimneys in Ukrainian villages not said here | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | present | the white stork nests on poles and chimneys in Ukrainian villages | mushroom | as a sign of good luck and home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as sign=Attribute | |||
| 6 | sign | good luck and home | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:13.
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. 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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