Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 3
Take each one apart and it's even better: the ostrich is turning its eggs in a nest dug in the ground, and the lemming film was staged, with lemmings pushed off a ledge for the camera.
Who acts: you, story, ostrich · What happens: take, be, turn, dig, stage, push off · To what, where: one, eggs, nest, ground, lemming film, lemmings
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 (you, story, ostrich), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 better | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 better | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | cop |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 better | advmod |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ostrich | det |
| 12 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 turning | aux |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turning | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 nest | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 nest | det |
| 19 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | obl |
| 20 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 nest | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dug | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 staged | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 staged | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 film | det |
| 27 | lemming | lemming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 film | compound |
| 28 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 staged | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 staged | aux:pass |
| 30 | staged | stage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 turning | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pushed | punct |
| 32 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 34 pushed | mark |
| 33 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 staged | advcl |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 pushed | compound:prt |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ledge | det |
| 37 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pushed | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 camera | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 camera | det |
| 40 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pushed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | each one | apart property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | story | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | present · progressive | the ostrich | story's eggs | in a nest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Patient in nest=Topic | |||
| 4 | dig | participle | a nest not said here | the ground | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location | ||||
| 5 | stage | past · passive | the lemming film | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | push off | participle · passive | lemmings | for the camera; a ledge obl | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:3.
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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