Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 1
Birds are flock animals that need friends, space to fly and long nights of sleep, and their small bodies are very sensitive: fumes from an overheated non-stick pan, avocado and chocolate can all kill a pet bird.
Who acts: Birds, flock animals, friends, small bodies, fumes · What happens: be, need, fly, overheat, kill · To what, where: flock animals, friends, pet bird
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (Birds, flock animals, friends, small bodies), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 animals | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 animals | cop |
| 3 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animals | compound |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 animals | acl:relcl |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 need | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 space | punct |
| 9 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friends | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fly | mark |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 need | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 nights | cc |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nights | amod |
| 14 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fly | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sleep | case |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nights | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sensitive | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sensitive | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bodies | amod |
| 21 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sensitive | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sensitive | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sensitive | advmod |
| 24 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | parataxis |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 fumes | punct |
| 26 | fumes | fume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 kill | nsubj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 pan | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pan | det |
| 29 | overheated | overheat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 pan | amod |
| 30 | non-stick | non-stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pan | compound |
| 31 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fumes | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 avocado | punct |
| 33 | avocado | avocado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pan | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 chocolate | cc |
| 35 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pan | conj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 kill | aux |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 38 kill | advmod |
| 38 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sensitive | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bird | det |
| 40 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bird | compound |
| 41 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kill | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 kill | 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 | Birds | flock animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | flock animals | friends and space | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | friends and space not said here | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Birds's small bodies | sensitive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | overheat | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | kill | can | fumes from a overheated non-stick pan and avocado and chocolate | a pet bird | all property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:1.
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): 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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