More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 3
Cartoons get these animals wrong all the time: the chameleon turns tartan on a picnic rug, the sloth is lazy, and the narwhal's tusk is a unicorn horn; the real reasons are better stories.
Who acts: Cartoons, chameleon, sloth, tusk, real reasons · What happens: get, turn, be · To what, where: animals, tartan, picnic rug, unicorn horn, better stories
This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 (Cartoons, chameleon, sloth, tusk), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 animals | det |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 turns | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chameleon | det |
| 11 | chameleon | chameleon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | nsubj |
| 12 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | parataxis |
| 13 | tartan | tartan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 rug | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rug | det |
| 16 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rug | compound |
| 17 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lazy | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sloth | det |
| 20 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lazy | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lazy | cop |
| 22 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turns | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 horn | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 horn | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 narwhal | det |
| 26 | narwhal | narwhal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tusk | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 narwhal | case |
| 28 | tusk | tusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 horn | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 horn | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 horn | det |
| 31 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 horn | compound |
| 32 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lazy | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 stories | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 reasons | det |
| 35 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 reasons | amod |
| 36 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 stories | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 stories | cop |
| 38 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 stories | amod |
| 39 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 horn | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Cartoons | this animals | time | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | turn | present | the chameleon | tartan | a picnic rug | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | the sloth | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the narwhal's tusk | a unicorn horn and better stories | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the real reasons | better stories | 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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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