Migration: the great journeys, sentence 3
Cartoons show birds flying south with suitcases and a map, and the old story said swallows slept at the bottom of ponds; scientists put tiny rings and trackers on birds and found out where they really go.
Who acts: Cartoons, birds, old story, swallows, scientists · What happens: show, fly, say, sleep, put, find out · To what, where: birds, bottom, tiny rings · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» 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, birds, old story, swallows), 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 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 birds | acl |
| 5 | south | south | ADV | _ | 4 flying | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 suitcases | case |
| 7 | suitcases | suitcase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flying | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 map | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 map | det |
| 10 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suitcases | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 story | amod |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | conj |
| 17 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slept | nsubj |
| 18 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 bottom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bottom | det |
| 21 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slept | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ponds | case |
| 23 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bottom | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 25 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | parataxis |
| 27 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rings | amod |
| 28 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 trackers | cc |
| 30 | trackers | tracker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rings | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 birds | case |
| 32 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 found | cc |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 found | compound:prt |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 go | advmod |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 go | nsubj |
| 38 | really | really | ADV | _ | 39 go | advmod |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 found | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Cartoons | birds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | birds not said here | with suitcases and a map; south property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sleep | past | swallows | the bottom of ponds | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | put | past | scientists | tiny rings and trackers | on birds | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on bird=Destination | |||
| 6 | find out | past | scientists not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | go | present | scientists = scientist | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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