The penguin pool, sentence 3
Cartoons and Christmas cards put penguins next to polar bears, but the two never meet, because penguins live in the south and polar bears in the far north.
Who acts: Cartoons, two, penguins · What happens: put, not meet, live · To what, where: penguins, south
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 (Cartoons, two, 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cards | cc |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cards | compound |
| 4 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cartoons | conj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | next | next | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bears | case |
| 9 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bears | amod |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 next | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meet | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 meet | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 two | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 meet | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 meet | advmod |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 19 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | nsubj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 meet | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 south | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 south | det |
| 23 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bears | cc |
| 25 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bears | amod |
| 26 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 south | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 north | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 north | det |
| 29 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 north | amod |
| 30 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | Cartoons and Christmas cards | penguins | next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent penguin=Goal | |||
| 2 | not meet | present | the two | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | present | penguins | the south and polar bears | in the far north | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=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:3.
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, R7-rel-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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