Migration and hibernation, sentence 7
Migrating birds find their way using the Sun, the stars, landmarks and the Earth's magnetism.
Who acts: Migrating birds · What happens: migrate, find, use · To what, where: way, Sun
This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» 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 (Migrating 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 | Migrating | migrate | VERB | VerbForm=Part | 2 birds | amod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 find | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 using | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stars | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Sun | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 landmarks | punct |
| 13 | landmarks | landmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stars | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 magnetism | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Earth | det |
| 16 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 magnetism | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Earth | case |
| 18 | magnetism | magnetism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stars | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | migrate | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | find | present | Migrating birds | birds's way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | Migrating birds not said here | the Sun and the stars and landmarks and the Earth's magnetism | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
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:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:7.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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