The penguin pool, sentence 17
The penguins in Madagascar are four, but real penguins live in big colonies, sometimes of thousands.
Who acts: penguins, real penguins · What happens: be, live · To what, where: four, big colonies
This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» 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 (penguins, real penguins), 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 | 2 penguins | det |
| 2 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 four | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Madagascar | case |
| 4 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 penguins | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 four | cop |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 live | cc |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 penguins | amod |
| 10 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 four | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 colonies | case |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 colonies | amod |
| 14 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thousands | punct |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 18 thousands | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thousands | case |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 colonies | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 four | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the penguins in Madagascar | four | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | real penguins | big colonies and thousands | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colony=Location |
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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:17.
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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