How animals talk, sentence 4
A honeybee forager dances a figure of eight on the comb; the direction of the waggle run shows the angle of the flowers from the Sun and its length shows the distance, worked out by Karl von Frisch, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1973.
Who acts: honeybee forager, direction, length, Karl · What happens: dance, show, work out, share · To what, where: figure, comb, angle, distance, Nobel Prize, 1973
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals talk» 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 (honeybee forager, direction, length, Karl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 forager | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forager | compound |
| 3 | forager | forager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dances | nsubj |
| 4 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 figure | det |
| 6 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dances | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 eight | case |
| 8 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 figure | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 comb | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 comb | det |
| 11 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dances | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shows | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 direction | det |
| 14 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shows | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 run | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 run | det |
| 17 | waggle | waggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | compound |
| 18 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 direction | nmod |
| 19 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dances | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 angle | det |
| 21 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shows | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 flowers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flowers | det |
| 24 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 angle | nmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Sun | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sun | det |
| 27 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 flowers | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shows | cc |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 length | nmod:poss |
| 30 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shows | nsubj |
| 31 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shows | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 distance | det |
| 33 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shows | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 worked | punct |
| 35 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 distance | acl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 worked | compound:prt |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 Karl | case |
| 38 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 worked | obl:agent |
| 39 | von | von | PROPN | Foreign=Yes | 38 Karl | flat:foreign |
| 40 | Frisch | Frisch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Karl | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 shared | punct |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 shared | nsubj |
| 43 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 Karl | acl:relcl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 Prize | det |
| 45 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Prize | compound |
| 46 | Prize | Prize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 shared | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 1973 | case |
| 48 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 shared | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dances | 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 | dance | present | a honeybee forager | a figure of eight | the comb | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | present | the direction of the waggle run | the angle of the flowers from the Sun | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent angle=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | present | direction's length | the distance | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent distance=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | work out | participle | the distance not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | share | past | Karl | a Nobel Prize | 1973 | 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:050-how-animals-talk.lesson:4.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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