Birds and baby animals, sentence 13
"Bird poop is good luck" is a kind saying to cheer people up, not a fact.
Who acts: Bird poop, good luck · What happens: be, cheer up · To what, where: good luck, kind saying, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 poop, good luck), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 luck | punct |
| 2 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poop | compound |
| 3 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 luck | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 luck | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 luck | amod |
| 6 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 luck | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saying | amod |
| 11 | saying | say | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cheer | mark |
| 13 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saying | acl |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cheer | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 cheer | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fact | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fact | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fact | det |
| 19 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | 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 in a quote | present | Bird poop | good luck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | present | good luck | kind saying | a fact obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cheer up | to-infinitive | people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:13.
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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