The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 11
Swans, many parrots and albatrosses keep the same partner for years, and some albatross pairs stay together for 50 years or more.
Who acts: Swans, albatross pairs · What happens: keep, stay together · To what, where: same partner
This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (Swans, albatross pairs), 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 | Swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 parrots | punct |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parrots | amod |
| 4 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Swans | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 albatrosses | cc |
| 6 | albatrosses | albatross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Swans | conj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 partner | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 partner | amod |
| 10 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stay | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 pairs | det |
| 16 | albatross | albatross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pairs | compound |
| 17 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | conj |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 stay | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 21 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stay | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 more | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 years | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | 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 | keep | present | Swans and many parrots and albatrosses | the same partner | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Theme | |||
| 2 | stay together | present | some albatross pairs | year | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:11.
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, 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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