Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations, sentence 1
Ukraine is the largest country lying wholly in Europe, Russia being bigger only if you count its Asian land; a Kyiv-born engineer, Igor Sikorsky, made the helicopter practical; and «Carol of the Bells», sung in American films every Christmas, is the Ukrainian song «Shchedryk».
Who acts: Ukraine, largest country, you, « Carol · What happens: be, lie, count, bear, make, sing · To what, where: largest country, Europe, Asian land, Kyiv, helicopter, Christmas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» of the history 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 (Ukraine, largest country, you, « Carol), 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 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 country | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | conj |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 country | acl |
| 7 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 6 lying | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Europe | case |
| 9 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lying | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Russia | punct |
| 11 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Europe | conj |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 bigger | cop |
| 13 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 Russia | parataxis |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 count | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 count | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 count | nsubj |
| 17 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bigger | advcl |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 land | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 land | amod |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 count | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 engineer | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 engineer | det |
| 23 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 born | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kyiv | punct |
| 25 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 engineer | amod |
| 26 | engineer | engineer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 country | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Igor | punct |
| 28 | Igor | Igor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 engineer | appos |
| 29 | Sikorsky | Sikorsky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Igor | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 helicopter | det |
| 33 | helicopter | helicopter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 34 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 Carol | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 song | cc |
| 37 | « | « | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Carol | compound |
| 38 | Carol | Carol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 song | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Bells | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Bells | det |
| 41 | Bells | bell | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 Carol | nmod |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 44 sung | punct |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sung | punct |
| 44 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 Carol | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 films | case |
| 46 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 films | amod |
| 47 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 sung | obl |
| 48 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 Christmas | det |
| 49 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 sung | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 song | punct |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 song | cop |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 song | det |
| 53 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 song | amod |
| 54 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | conj |
| 55 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 56 Shchedryk | punct |
| 56 | Shchedryk | Shchedryk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 song | appos |
| 57 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Shchedryk | flat |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | 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 | Ukraine | the largest country and a born engineer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the largest country and a born engineer not said here | Europe and Russia | wholly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in europe=Location | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | big property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | count a condition, not said to happen | present | you | fish's Asian land | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bear | participle | Kyiv | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | make | past | the helicopter | practical property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset helicopter=Product | ||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | participle | « Carol of the Bells not said here | every Christmas | American films | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location | |||
| 8 | is a | present | « Carol of the Bells | the Ukrainian song | tree rules |
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:history:050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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