Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 5
The bald eagle is not bald; its name comes from an old word meaning white, for its white head, and it became the national bird of the USA in 1782.
Who acts: bald eagle, name, old word, eagle · What happens: not be, come, mean, become, name · To what, where: old word, white, national bird, 1782
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 (bald eagle, name, old word, eagle), 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 eagle | det |
| 2 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eagle | amod |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bald | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bald | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bald | advmod |
| 6 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bald | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 word | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 word | amod |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comes | obl |
| 15 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 word | acl |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meaning | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 head | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 head | amod |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meaning | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 became | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 became | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 became | nsubj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 comes | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 27 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bird | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | xcomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 USA | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 USA | det |
| 31 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 bird | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 1782 | case |
| 33 | 1782 | 1782 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 became | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bald | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the bald eagle | bald property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | eagle's name | a old word | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | a old word not said here | white | for eagle's white head | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot white=Theme for head=Attribute | |||
| 4 | become | past | eagle | the national bird of the USA | in 1782 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1782=Result | |||
| 5 | name | eagle | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:5.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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