Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 12
Birds need about ten to twelve hours of sleep, so covering part of the cage at night helps.
Who acts: Birds, covering · What happens: need, cover, help · To what, where: part
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, covering), 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 | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 twelve | case |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ten | nmod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sleep | case |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hours | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 helps | advmod |
| 12 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 helps | csubj |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covering | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covering | obl |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 need | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | 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 | need | present | Birds | hour | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | cover | gerund | part of the cage | night | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination | ||||
| 3 | help | present | covering | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:12.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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