The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 13
A leopard is born with its rosettes (rings of dark spots) because the pattern is passed down from its parents, the way your eye colour is; every leopard's pattern is different, and the spotty coat hides it in the dappled shade of trees and long grass.
Who acts: pattern, spotty coat, leopard · What happens: bear, pass down, be, hide, pattern, shade · To what, where: leopard, pattern, dappled shade, trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (pattern, spotty coat, leopard), 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 leopard | det |
| 2 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rosettes | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 rosettes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | rosettes | rosette | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 born | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 rings | punct |
| 9 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rosettes | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 spots | case |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spots | amod |
| 12 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rings | nmod |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 rings | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 passed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pattern | det |
| 16 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | aux:pass |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 born | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 passed | compound:prt |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 parents | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 parents | nmod:poss |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 passed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 way | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 parents | nmod |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 colour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 colour | compound |
| 28 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 is | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 way | acl:relcl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 different | punct |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 leopard | det |
| 32 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pattern | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 leopard | case |
| 34 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 different | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 different | cop |
| 36 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 born | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hides | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 hides | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 coat | det |
| 40 | spotty | spotty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 coat | amod |
| 41 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hides | nsubj |
| 42 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 different | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hides | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 shade | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 shade | det |
| 46 | dappled | dapple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 shade | amod |
| 47 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hides | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 trees | case |
| 49 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 shade | nmod |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 grass | cc |
| 51 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 grass | amod |
| 52 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 trees | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | 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 | bear | present · passive | a leopard | with Leopard's rosettes | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass down | present · passive | the pattern | from Leopard's parents the way | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from parent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | every leopard's pattern | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide | present | the spotty coat | pattern | the dappled shade of trees and long grass | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in shade=Location | |||
| 5 | pattern | every leopard | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | shade | trees and long grass | nom shade «state 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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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 ×2, 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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