The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 16
Kangaroos were hopping for millions of years before dingoes reached Australia, probably with seafaring people at least 3,500 years ago, so the Dingo cannot have given the Kangaroo its legs.
Who acts: Kangaroos, dingoes, Dingo · What happens: hop, reach, not give · To what, where: Australia, legs, Kangaroo
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 (Kangaroos, dingoes, Dingo), 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 | Kangaroos | kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 hopping | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hopping | aux |
| 3 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 millions | case |
| 5 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hopping | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 millions | nmod |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | dingoes | dingo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hopping | advcl |
| 11 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 16 people | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 people | compound |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hopping | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 3,500 | advmod |
| 19 | 3,500 | 3500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 people | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 years | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 given | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 given | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Dingo | det |
| 25 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 given | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 given | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 given | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 given | aux |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hopping | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Kangaroo | det |
| 31 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 given | iobj |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 legs | nmod:poss |
| 33 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 given | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hopping | 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 | hop | past · progressive | Kangaroos | for millions of years; with seafaring people | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | dingoes | Australia | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent australia=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not give | can · perfect | the Dingo | energy's legs | the Kangaroo | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kangaroo=Recipient leg=Theme |
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:16.
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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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