Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 1
It is a brilliant picture, and the Romans were already telling it two thousand years ago.
Who acts: ostrich, Romans · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: brilliant picture, ostrich · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» 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 (ostrich, Romans), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 picture | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 picture | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 4 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 picture | amod |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 telling | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 telling | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Romans | det |
| 9 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 telling | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 telling | aux |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 telling | advmod |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 picture | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 telling | obj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 thousand | compound |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 telling | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ostrich | a brilliant picture | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | the Romans | ostrich | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:1.
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): 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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