The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 4
Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons made bats into scary bloodsuckers, but only three kinds of bat drink blood, and even they lap a few drops rather than suck.
Who acts: Dracula stories, three kinds, kinds · What happens: make, drink, lap, suck · To what, where: bats, scary bloodsuckers, blood, few drops
This is a sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 (Dracula stories, three kinds, kinds), 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 | Dracula | Dracula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stories | compound |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 4 | Halloween | Halloween | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cartoons | compound |
| 5 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stories | conj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 bloodsuckers | case |
| 9 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bloodsuckers | amod |
| 10 | bloodsuckers | bloodsucker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drink | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 drink | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 three | advmod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 kinds | nummod |
| 15 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 drink | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bat | case |
| 17 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kinds | nmod |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drink | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lap | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lap | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 lap | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lap | nsubj |
| 24 | lap | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 drops | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 drops | amod |
| 27 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lap | obj |
| 28 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 30 suck | cc |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 rather | fixed |
| 30 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 lap | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons | bats | scary bloodsuckers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bat=Material into bloodsucker=Product | |||
| 2 | drink | present | three kinds of bat | blood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lap | present | kinds = kind | a few drops | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient | ||||
| 4 | suck | infinitive | kinds = kind not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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): no change. 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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