Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 19
«Barn owls have heart-shaped faces» is a fact; «owls are the best birds» is an opinion.
Who acts: Barn owls, owls · What happens: have, shape, be · To what, where: heart shaped faces, fact, best birds, opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english 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 (Barn owls, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | Barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owls | compound |
| 3 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fact | csubj |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 faces | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 7 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 faces | amod |
| 8 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fact | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fact | det |
| 12 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 opinion | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 birds | punct |
| 15 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 birds | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 birds | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 birds | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 birds | amod |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 opinion | csubj |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 birds | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 opinion | cop |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 opinion | det |
| 23 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fact | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fact | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Barn owls | heart shaped faces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shape in a quote | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a fact | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | owls | the best birds | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a opinion | tree rules |
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:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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