Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 9
Before a bird flies indoors you close windows and doors, cover mirrors and turn off fans.
Who acts: bird, you · What happens: fly, close, cover, turn off · To what, where: windows, mirrors, fans
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 (bird, you), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 flies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | nsubj |
| 4 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 close | advcl |
| 5 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 4 flies | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 close | nsubj |
| 7 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 close | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 doors | cc |
| 10 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 windows | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cover | punct |
| 12 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 close | conj |
| 13 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cover | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turn | cc |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cover | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 turn | compound:prt |
| 17 | fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 turn | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=suggest, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | a bird | indoors property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | present | you | windows and doors | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cover | infinitive | you not said here | mirrors | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mirror=Destination | ||||
| 4 | turn off | infinitive | you not said here | fans | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fan=Patient |
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:9.
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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