Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 11
A collective noun names a group, like a team, a class, a herd or a flock of sheep.
Who acts: collective noun · What happens: name · To what, where: group
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language 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 (collective noun), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 noun | det |
| 2 | collective | collective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noun | amod |
| 3 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 names | nsubj |
| 4 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 names | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 team | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 team | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 team | det |
| 10 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 group | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 class | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 class | det |
| 13 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 team | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 herd | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 herd | det |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 team | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 flock | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 flock | det |
| 19 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 team | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sheep | case |
| 21 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flock | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 names | 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 | name | present | a collective noun | a group | like a team and a class and a herd or a flock of sheep | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
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:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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