Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 13
Whales breathe air, feed their babies milk and are mammals, not fish.
Who acts: Whales · What happens: breathe, feed, be · To what, where: air, babies milk, mammals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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 (Whales), 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 | Whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breathe | nsubj |
| 2 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breathe | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feed | punct |
| 5 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 breathe | conj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 milk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 milk | compound |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mammals | cc |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mammals | cop |
| 11 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breathe | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fish | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fish | advmod |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mammals | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breathe | 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 | breathe | present | Whales | air | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | Whales not said here | idea's babies milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Whales not said here | mammals | fish nmod | 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:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.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): R3-conj-first ×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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