Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 8
Birds have feathers, a beak and lay eggs with hard shells.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: feathers, eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» 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 (Birds), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beak | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beak | det |
| 6 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feathers | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 shells | case |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shells | amod |
| 12 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Birds | feathers and a beak | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | Birds not said here | eggs | with hard shells | 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:024-animal-groups.lesson:8.
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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