Thinking like an animal, sentence 7
Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors.
Who acts: Many animal behaviours · What happens: be, inherit · To what, where: instincts, wild ancestors
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» of the everyday 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 (Many animal behaviours), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 behaviours | amod |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 behaviours | compound |
| 3 | behaviours | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 instincts | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 instincts | cop |
| 5 | instincts | instinct | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 instincts | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ancestors | case |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ancestors | amod |
| 9 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 inherited | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 instincts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Many animal behaviours | instincts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inherit | participle | instincts not said here | wild ancestors | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ancestor=Source |
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:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:7.
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): R6-punct-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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