Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 1
Names can trick you: a bald eagle has a full head of white feathers, and the American robin is a different, bigger bird from the British robin, named by homesick settlers because its red breast reminded them of home.
Who acts: Names, bald eagle, American robin, red breast · What happens: trick, have, be, name, remind · To what, where: you, full head, British robin, Names
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 (Names, bald eagle, American robin, red breast), 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 | Names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trick | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 trick | aux |
| 3 | trick | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 trick | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eagle | det |
| 7 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eagle | amod |
| 8 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trick | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 feathers | case |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feathers | amod |
| 15 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 head | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 different | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 different | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 robin | det |
| 19 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 robin | amod |
| 20 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 different | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 different | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 different | det |
| 23 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bird | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bird | punct |
| 25 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 bird | amod |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trick | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 robin | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 robin | det |
| 29 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 robin | amod |
| 30 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bird | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 named | punct |
| 32 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 robin | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 settlers | case |
| 34 | homesick | homesick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 settlers | amod |
| 35 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 named | obl:agent |
| 36 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 40 reminded | mark |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 breast | nmod:poss |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 breast | amod |
| 39 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 reminded | nsubj |
| 40 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 named | advcl |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 reminded | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 home | case |
| 43 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 reminded | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | can | Names | you | different bigger bird from the British robin obl | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | a bald eagle | a full head of white feathers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the American robin | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | the British robin not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remind speech: other | past | eagle's red breast | Names = name | of home | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of home=Topic |
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.
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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 ×3, 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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