Birds and baby animals, sentence 2

Bird myths are some of the most charming: hummingbirds hitching rides on geese, mother birds shoving their babies out to teach them to fly, wedding rice making birds explode, a duck's quack that mysteriously never echoes.

Who acts: hummingbirds, mother birds, wedding rice, birds, quack · What happens: hitch, shove out, teach, fly, make, explode · To what, where: rides, babies, birds

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 (hummingbirds, mother birds, wedding rice, 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	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 myths	compound
2	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 some	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 some	cop
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 charming	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 charming	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 charming	advmod
8	charming	charm	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 some	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 hummingbirds	punct
10	hummingbirds	hummingbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hitching	nsubj
11	hitching	hitch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 charming	parataxis
12	rides	ride	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hitching	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 geese	case
14	geese	geese	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hitching	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 birds	punct
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 birds	compound
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hummingbirds	conj
18	shoving	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 birds	acl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 babies	nmod:poss
20	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shoving	obj
21	out	out	ADV	_	18 shoving	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 teach	mark
23	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shoving	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 teach	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fly	mark
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 teach	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fly	punct
28	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rice	compound
29	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 making	nsubj
30	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 fly	advcl
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 making	obj
32	explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 making	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 quack	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 duck	det
35	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 quack	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 duck	case
37	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 some	nmod
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 echoes	nsubj
39	mysteriously	mysteriously	ADV	_	41 echoes	advmod
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 echoes	advmod
41	echoes	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 quack	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 some	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hitch	gerund	hummingbirds and mother birds	rides		on geese	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ride=Patient on geese=Co-Patient
2	shove out	gerund	mother birds not said here	hummingbirds's babies		out property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	mother birds not said here		babies = baby		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	fly	to-infinitive	mother birds not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	gerund	wedding rice	birds			tree rules
6	explode	present	birds not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not echo	present	a duck's quack			mysteriously property	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:2.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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