Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 0
Counting an animal's parts is a real scientist's game: how many hearts, eyes, legs or teeth it has tells you how it lives, and the numbers are often stranger than any cartoon.
Who acts: Counting, game, numbers · What happens: count, be, have, tell, live · To what, where: parts, game, many hearts, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (Counting, game, numbers), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 game | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 parts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 animal | case |
| 5 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 game | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 scientist | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scientist | amod |
| 9 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 game | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 scientist | case |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hearts | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hearts | amod |
| 15 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 game | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hearts | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 legs | punct |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hearts | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 teeth | cc |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hearts | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hearts | acl:relcl |
| 24 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 game | parataxis |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 tells | iobj |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 lives | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lives | nsubj |
| 28 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tells | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stranger | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stranger | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 numbers | det |
| 32 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stranger | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 stranger | cop |
| 34 | often | often | ADV | _ | 35 stranger | advmod |
| 35 | stranger | strange | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 game | conj |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 cartoon | case |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 cartoon | det |
| 38 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stranger | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 game | 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 | count | gerund | a animal's parts | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Counting | a real scientist's game | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | game | many hearts and eyes and legs or teeth not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | live | present | game | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the numbers | than any cartoon; often, strange property | 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:041-counting-animals.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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