Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 12
The American robin is a thrush, bigger than the British robin, with a grey back and reddish breast, and it often finds worms by sight.
Who acts: American robin, thrush · What happens: be, find · To what, where: thrush, worms
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 (American robin, thrush), 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 | 3 robin | det |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robin | amod |
| 3 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thrush | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thrush | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thrush | det |
| 6 | thrush | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bigger | punct |
| 8 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 thrush | amod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 robin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robin | det |
| 11 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 robin | amod |
| 12 | robin | robin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bigger | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grey | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 back | det |
| 16 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 back | amod |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bigger | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 breast | cc |
| 19 | reddish | reddish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 breast | amod |
| 20 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 finds | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 finds | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 finds | nsubj |
| 24 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 finds | advmod |
| 25 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thrush | conj |
| 26 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 finds | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finds | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thrush | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the American robin | a thrush | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present | thrush | worms | by sight; often property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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.
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:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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