Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 8
Budgies are flock birds that need a friend, a big cage and time to fly in a safe room.
Who acts: Budgies, flock birds · What happens: be, need, fly · To what, where: flock birds, friend, safe room
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 (Budgies, flock birds), 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 | Budgies | budgie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 birds | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 birds | cop |
| 3 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | compound |
| 4 | birds | bird | 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 birds | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cage | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cage | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cage | amod |
| 12 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cage | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fly | mark |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 room | amod |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fly | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Budgies | flock birds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | flock birds | a friend and a big cage and time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | to-infinitive | flock birds not said here | a safe room | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
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:8.
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. 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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