Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 5
After a rainy night a boy in Ireland finds worms drying out on the path to school.
Who acts: boy, worms · What happens: find, dry out · To what, where: worms, path
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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 (boy, worms), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Ireland | case |
| 8 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nmod |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 finds | obj |
| 11 | drying | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 finds | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 drying | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drying | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 path | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 finds | 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 | find | present | a boy in Ireland | worms | night | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent worm=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | dry out | gerund | worms not said here | the path to school | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:5.
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): no change. 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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