Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 2
At the bird of prey show an owl drifts over the crowd without a sound, a falcon drops onto a swinging lure, and a hawk comes back to the glove because it has learned the glove means food.
Who acts: owl, falcon, hawk, glove · What happens: drift, drop, swing, come back, learn, mean · To what, where: bird show, crowd, swinging lure, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 (owl, falcon, hawk, glove), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 bird | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | compound |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prey | case |
| 5 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | nmod |
| 6 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drifts | obl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 owl | det |
| 8 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drifts | nsubj |
| 9 | drifts | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 crowd | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crowd | det |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drifts | obl |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 sound | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sound | det |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drifts | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drops | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 falcon | det |
| 18 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drops | nsubj |
| 19 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 drifts | conj |
| 20 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 23 lure | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lure | det |
| 22 | swinging | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 lure | amod |
| 23 | lure | lure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drops | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 comes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 comes | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hawk | det |
| 27 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 comes | nsubj |
| 28 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 drifts | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 comes | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 glove | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 glove | det |
| 32 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 back | obl |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 learned | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 learned | nsubj |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 learned | aux |
| 36 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 comes | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 glove | det |
| 38 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | nsubj |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 learned | ccomp |
| 40 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drifts | 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 | drift | present | a owl | bird show | the crowd | without a sound | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over crowd=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | drop | present | a falcon | a swinging lure | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme onto lure=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | swing | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | come back | present | a hawk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | learn | present · perfect | hawk | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | the glove | food | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:2.
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 ×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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