Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 13
Roosters are male chickens and don't lay eggs.
Who acts: Roosters · What happens: be, not lay · To what, where: male chickens, eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 (Roosters), 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 | Roosters | rooster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chickens | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chickens | cop |
| 3 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chickens | amod |
| 4 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 lay | advmod |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chickens | conj |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chickens | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Roosters | male chickens | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not lay | present · do-support | Roosters not said here | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:13.
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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