Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 21

"Up with the larks" means up very early, a "night owl" stays up late, and in Australia "sparrow's" means very early, at first light.

Who acts: night owl, sparrow · What happens: mean up, stay up, mean · To what, where: early

This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, shadows and sundials» of the world 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 (night owl, sparrow), 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 Up	punct
2	Up	up	ADP	_	7 means	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 larks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 larks	det
5	larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Up	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 larks	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stays	advcl
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 means	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 early	advmod
10	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 means	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stays	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 owl	det
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 owl	punct
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 owl	compound
15	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stays	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 owl	punct
17	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 stays	compound:prt
19	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 stays	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 means	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 means	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Australia	case
23	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 means	obl
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 sparrow	punct
25	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	nsubj
26	's	's	PART	_	25 sparrow	case
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 sparrow	punct
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stays	conj
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 early	advmod
30	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 means	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 light	punct
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 light	case
33	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 light	amod
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean up	present	a night owl not said here		early property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	stay up	present	a night owl		late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	sparrow	early	at first light; in Australia	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot early=Theme in australia=Attribute

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:world:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:21.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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