Migration: the great journeys, sentence 5
Barn swallows from Britain and Europe fly about 10000 km to southern Africa for winter, because there are no flying insects for them in a European winter.
Who acts: Barn swallows, flying insects · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: 10000 km, southern Africa
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 (Barn swallows, flying insects), 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 | Barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swallows | compound |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Britain | case |
| 4 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swallows | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Europe | cc |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Britain | conj |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 10000 | advmod |
| 9 | 10000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 km | nummod |
| 10 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Africa | case |
| 12 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Africa | amod |
| 13 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 winter | case |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fly | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 are | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 are | expl |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fly | advcl |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 insects | det |
| 21 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 insects | amod |
| 22 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 insects | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 winter | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 winter | det |
| 27 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 winter | amod |
| 28 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 are | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fly | 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 | fly | infinitive | Barn swallows from Britain and Europe | 10000 km | southern Africa | winter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to africa=Result | ||
| 2 | does | present | no flying insects for swallows | there | winter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:5.
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. 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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