Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 33
Real life: animals do not change their bodies by practising for one night; living things change very slowly, over thousands of generations.
Who acts: animals, living things · What happens: not change, practise, change · To what, where: bodies, thousands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» of the books 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 (animals, living things), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 change | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 change | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 change | advmod |
| 7 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 life | appos |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 change | obj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 practising | mark |
| 11 | practising | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 change | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 night | nummod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 practising | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 change | punct |
| 16 | living | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 things | amod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | nsubj |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 change | parataxis |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 slowly | advmod |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 change | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 change | punct |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 thousands | case |
| 23 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 generations | case |
| 25 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thousands | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | present · do-support | animals | life's bodies | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 2 | practise | gerund | animals not said here | night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | present | living things | thousands of generations | slowly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:33.
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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