Migration: the great journeys, sentence 6
Arctic terns fly from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year, often 70000 km or more, the longest migration of any animal, and they see more daylight than any other animal: two summers a year give long days and plenty of food.
Who acts: Arctic terns, terns, two summers, animal · What happens: fly, see, give, migrate · To what, where: Antarctic, Arctic, more daylight
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 (Arctic terns, terns, two summers, animal), 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 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 terns | amod |
| 2 | terns | tern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Arctic | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Arctic | det |
| 6 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Antarctic | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Antarctic | det |
| 9 | Antarctic | Antarctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 year | cc |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 year | advmod |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Antarctic | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 km | punct |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 km | advmod |
| 16 | 70000 | 70000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 km | nummod |
| 17 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Antarctic | appos |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 km | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 migration | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 migration | det |
| 22 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 migration | amod |
| 23 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Antarctic | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 animal | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 animal | det |
| 26 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 migration | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 see | nsubj |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | conj |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 daylight | amod |
| 32 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obj |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 animal | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 animal | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 animal | amod |
| 36 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 summers | punct |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 summers | nummod |
| 39 | summers | summer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 give | nsubj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 year | det |
| 41 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 summers | nmod |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | parataxis |
| 43 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 days | amod |
| 44 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 give | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 plenty | cc |
| 46 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 days | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 food | case |
| 48 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 plenty | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | present | Arctic terns | the Antarctic and every year | the Arctic | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from arctic=Initial_Location to antarctic=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | present | terns = tern | more daylight | than any other animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | give | present | two summers a year | day | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | migrate | any animal | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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:6.
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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