Birds and baby animals, sentence 16
Watching real footage, such as a nest camera, is a good way to test a claim about how birds behave.
Who acts: Watching, birds · What happens: watch, be, test, behave · To what, where: real footage, good way, claim
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 (Watching, birds), 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 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 way | csubj |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 footage | amod |
| 3 | footage | footage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watching | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 camera | punct |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 camera | case |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 such | fixed |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 camera | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 camera | compound |
| 9 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 footage | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watching | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 way | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 test | mark |
| 16 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 way | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 claim | det |
| 18 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 test | obj |
| 19 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 22 behave | mark |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 behave | advmod |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 behave | nsubj |
| 22 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 claim | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | real footage | such a nest camera | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Watching | a good way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | test | to-infinitive | a claim | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | |||||
| 4 | behave | present | birds | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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:16.
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): R7-rel-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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