Farm animals, forest animals and pets, sentence 12

"zhAba" means frog or toad; as an insult it means an ugly or greedy person, and "zhAba davyt", "the toad squeezes", means someone is greedy or envious.

Who acts: zhAba, ryba, zhAba davyt, someone · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: frog, ugly person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» of the ukrainian street 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 (zhAba, ryba, zhAba davyt, someone), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 zhAba	punct
2	zhAba	zhAba	PROPN	_	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 zhAba	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 toad	cc
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frog	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 insult	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 insult	det
11	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 person	amod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 greedy	cc
17	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ugly	conj
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 means	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 means	cc
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 davyt	punct
22	zhAba	zhAba	PROPN	_	23 davyt	compound
23	davyt	davyt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	nsubj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 davyt	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 davyt	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 squeezes	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 squeezes	det
28	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 squeezes	compound
29	squeezes	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 davyt	appos
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 squeezes	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 davyt	punct
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	parataxis
33	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 greedy	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 greedy	cop
35	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 means	ccomp
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 envious	cc
37	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 greedy	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	zhAba	frog or toad		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic
2	mean	present	ryba	a ugly person	as a insult	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent person=Topic as insult=Attribute
3	mean	present	zhAba davyt			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	someone		greedy property	tree rules
5	be		someone not said here			tree rules

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:ukrainian-street:022-farm-forest-animals-and-pets.lesson:12.

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 ×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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