The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 13

The Australian kookaburra's call sounds like loud laughter, and families call together at dawn and dusk to say «this is our land».

Who acts: call, families, this, Australian kookaburra · What happens: sound, call together, say, be, call · To what, where: land · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (call, families, this, Australian kookaburra), 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 kookaburra	det
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kookaburra	amod
3	kookaburra	kookaburra	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 kookaburra	case
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	nsubj
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 laughter	case
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 laughter	amod
9	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 call	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 call	cc
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 call	nsubj
13	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sounds	conj
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 call	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 dawn	case
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dusk	cc
18	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dawn	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 call	advcl
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 land	punct
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 land	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 land	cop
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 land	nmod:poss
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	ccomp
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 land	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	the Australian kookaburra's call			like loud laughter	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	call together speech: assert	present	families		dawn	together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	families not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	this	our land			tree rules
5	call		the Australian kookaburra				nom call «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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:13.

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. 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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