Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 4

Cartoons bend these birds: Rio's Blu is a real kind of macaw, but Road Runner would lose a real race against a coyote, and real owls do not deliver letters.

Who acts: Cartoons, Blu, Road Runner, real owls · What happens: bend, be, lose, not deliver · To what, where: birds, real kind, real race, letters

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 (Cartoons, Blu, Road Runner, real owls), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bend	nsubj
2	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bend	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 kind	punct
6	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Blu	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Rio	case
8	Blu	Blu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 kind	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kind	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kind	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kind	amod
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bend	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 macaw	case
14	macaw	macaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kind	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lose	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 lose	cc
17	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Runner	compound
18	Runner	Runner	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lose	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lose	aux
20	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kind	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 race	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 race	amod
23	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lose	obj
24	against	against	ADP	_	26 coyote	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 coyote	det
26	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 race	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 deliver	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 deliver	cc
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 owls	amod
30	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 deliver	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 deliver	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 deliver	advmod
33	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lose	conj
34	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 deliver	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bend	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bend	present	Cartoons	this birds		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bird=Material
2	is a	present	Rio's Blu	a real kind	of macaw	tree rules
3	lose	would	Road Runner	a real race	against a coyote	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
4	not deliver	present · do-support	real owls	letters		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

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:4.

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): 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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