The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 15
A real flamingo's long neck is soft and bends, which is exactly why Alice's flamingo keeps twisting round to look at her: it would be a useless croquet mallet.
Who acts: long neck, flamingo, neck · What happens: be, bend, keep, twist, look · To what, where: useless croquet mallet
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 (long neck, flamingo, neck), 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 | 3 flamingo | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flamingo | amod |
| 3 | flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 neck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 flamingo | case |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 neck | amod |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soft | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 soft | cop |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bends | cc |
| 10 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 soft | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 why | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 why | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 why | cop |
| 14 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 15 why | advmod |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 soft | conj |
| 16 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 flamingo | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Alice | case |
| 18 | flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeps | nsubj |
| 19 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 why | advcl:relcl |
| 20 | twisting | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 keeps | xcomp |
| 21 | round | round | ADV | _ | 20 twisting | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 twisting | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 mallet | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 mallet | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 mallet | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 mallet | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 mallet | det |
| 31 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mallet | amod |
| 32 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mallet | compound |
| 33 | mallet | mallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 why | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a real flamingo's long neck | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bend | present | a real flamingo's long neck not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | exactly, why property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | Alice's flamingo | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | twist | gerund | Alice's flamingo not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | Alice's flamingo not said here | at Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | would | neck | a useless croquet mallet | tree rules |
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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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): 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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