Birds and baby animals, sentence 9
Hummingbirds migrate on their own, flying amazing distances; they do not ride on geese.
Who acts: Hummingbirds, birds · What happens: migrate, fly, not ride · To what, where: flying amazing distances, own
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, 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 | Hummingbirds | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 migrate | nsubj |
| 2 | migrate | migrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 own | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 own | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 migrate | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 distances | punct |
| 7 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 distances | amod |
| 8 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 distances | amod |
| 9 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 migrate | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ride | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ride | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ride | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ride | advmod |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 migrate | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 geese | case |
| 16 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ride | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 migrate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | migrate | present | Hummingbirds | flying amazing distances | hummingbirds's own | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not ride | present · do-support | birds = bird | on geese | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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:9.
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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