Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 4
Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: nibble, grow, shrink, talk · To what, where: mushroom
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 (Alice), 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 | Earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 nibbles | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Earlier | punct |
| 3 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nibbles | nsubj |
| 4 | nibbles | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mushroom | det |
| 6 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nibbles | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 grow | mark |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nibbles | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shrink | cc |
| 10 | shrink | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 grow | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 talks | cc |
| 12 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nibbles | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Caterpillar | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Caterpillar | det |
| 15 | hookah | hookah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smoking | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hookah | punct |
| 17 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Caterpillar | compound |
| 18 | Caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talks | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nibbles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nibble | present | Alice | a mushroom | early property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shrink | infinitive | Alice not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | talk | present | Alice not said here | with a smoking Caterpillar | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with caterpillar=Co-Agent |
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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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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