The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 4
In Frozen, Sven the reindeer begs for carrots; real reindeer dig through the snow with their broad hooves to eat lichen, and unlike other deer, both the males and the females grow antlers.
Who acts: Sven, real reindeer, males · What happens: beg, dig, eat, grow · To what, where: Frozen, snow, lichen, antlers
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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 (Sven, real reindeer, males), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Frozen | case |
| 2 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begs | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sven | punct |
| 4 | Sven | Sven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begs | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reindeer | det |
| 6 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sven | appos |
| 7 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 grow | parataxis |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 carrots | case |
| 9 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 begs | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 dig | punct |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reindeer | amod |
| 12 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dig | nsubj |
| 13 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 begs | parataxis |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 snow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snow | det |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dig | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hooves | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hooves | nmod:poss |
| 19 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hooves | amod |
| 20 | hooves | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dig | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dig | advcl |
| 23 | lichen | lichen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grow | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deer | cc |
| 26 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 28 deer | case |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deer | amod |
| 28 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 grow | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 males | punct |
| 30 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 32 males | cc:preconj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 males | det |
| 32 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 grow | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 females | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 females | det |
| 35 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 males | conj |
| 36 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 grow | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | Sven | Frozen | for carrots | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for carrot=Topic | |||
| 2 | dig | present | real reindeer | the snow | with carrots's broad hooves | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hoof=Instrument | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | real reindeer not said here | lichen | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lichen=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | the males and the females | antlers | unlike other deer | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antler=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:006-the-arctic.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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