The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 7
So when you read the book, ask two questions: what is true about this animal, and what is only the joke?
Who acts: you · What happens: read, ask, be · To what, where: book, two questions, joke
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 (you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 ask | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 read | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 read | nsubj |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 questions | nummod |
| 10 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ask | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 true | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | cop |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ask | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 animal | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 animal | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 true | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 joke | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 joke | cc |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 joke | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 joke | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 joke | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 joke | det |
| 24 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 true | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | you | the book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | two questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | about this animal; true property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the joke | 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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:7.
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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