The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 19
The rock hyrax from the Leopard's story looks like a big guinea pig, yet its closest living relatives are elephants and manatees; the quagga, a zebra striped only at the front, died out in 1883.
Who acts: rock hyrax, closest living relatives, quagga · What happens: look, be, stripe, die out · To what, where: elephants, zebra, front
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 (rock hyrax, closest living relatives, quagga), 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 | 3 hyrax | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hyrax | compound |
| 3 | hyrax | hyrax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Leopard | det |
| 6 | Leopard | leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Leopard | case |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hyrax | nmod |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 pig | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pig | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pig | amod |
| 13 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pig | compound |
| 14 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 elephants | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 elephants | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 18 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 relatives | amod |
| 19 | living | live | ADJ | _ | 20 relatives | amod |
| 20 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 elephants | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 elephants | cop |
| 22 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looks | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 manatees | cc |
| 24 | manatees | manatee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 elephants | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 died | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 quagga | det |
| 27 | quagga | quagga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 died | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 zebra | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 zebra | det |
| 30 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 quagga | appos |
| 31 | striped | stripe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 zebra | acl |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 front | advmod |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 front | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 front | det |
| 35 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 striped | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 quagga | punct |
| 37 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looks | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 died | compound:prt |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 1883 | case |
| 40 | 1883 | 1883 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 died | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the rock hyrax from the Leopard's story | like a big guinea pig | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | hyrax's closest living relatives | elephants and manatees | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stripe | participle | a zebra not said here | the front | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die out | past | the quagga | in 1883 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1883=Attribute |
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:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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