Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 2
The puzzles are real: a wombat makes cube-shaped droppings, a platypus finds shrimps with its eyes shut by sensing electricity, and a kea parrot will happily take apart your car's windscreen wiper.
Who acts: puzzles, wombat, platypus, kea parrot · What happens: be, make, find, shut, sense, take apart · To what, where: cube shaped droppings, shrimps, eyes, electricity, windscreen wiper
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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 (puzzles, wombat, platypus, kea parrot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 puzzles | det |
| 2 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 real | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wombat | det |
| 7 | wombat | wombat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | parataxis |
| 9 | cube | cube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 droppings | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 droppings | punct |
| 11 | shaped | shaped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 droppings | amod |
| 12 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 makes | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 finds | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 platypus | det |
| 15 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finds | nsubj |
| 16 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 makes | conj |
| 17 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 finds | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shrimps | obl |
| 21 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 eyes | acl |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 sensing | mark |
| 23 | sensing | sense | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 shut | advcl |
| 24 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sensing | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 take | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 take | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 parrot | det |
| 28 | kea | kea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 parrot | compound |
| 29 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 take | aux |
| 31 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 32 take | advmod |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 real | parataxis |
| 33 | apart | apart | ADP | _ | 32 take | compound:prt |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 car | nmod:poss |
| 35 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wiper | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 car | case |
| 37 | windscreen | windscreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wiper | compound |
| 38 | wiper | wiper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | 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 | is | present | the puzzles | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a wombat | cube shaped droppings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product | ||||
| 3 | find | present | a platypus | shrimps | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic | ||||
| 4 | shut | participle | platypus's eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | sense | gerund | electricity | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer electricity=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | take apart | future | a kea parrot | your car's windscreen wiper | happily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wiper=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:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:2.
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): 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.
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