Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 12

Many fancy animal group names, like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls, come from old hunting lists written in the 1400s and are used mostly for fun.

Who acts: Many fancy group names · What happens: come, write, use, murder · To what, where: old hunting lists, 1400s, crows

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 (Many fancy group names), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 names	amod
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 names	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 group	compound
4	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 names	compound
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 murder	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 murder	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 murder	det
9	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 names	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 crows	case
11	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 murder	nmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 parliament	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 parliament	det
14	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 murder	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 owls	case
16	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 parliament	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 lists	case
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lists	amod
21	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lists	compound
22	lists	list	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	obl
23	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 lists	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 1400s	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 1400s	det
26	1400s	1400	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	23 written	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 used	cc
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 used	aux:pass
29	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 come	conj
30	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	32 fun	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 fun	case
32	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 used	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Many fancy group names like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls		old hunting lists		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from list=Initial_Location
2	write	participle		old hunting lists not said here	the 1400s		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1400=Destination
3	use	present · passive	Many fancy group names like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls not said here			for fun	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»
4	murder			crows			nom murder «act transitive»: of=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:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:12.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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