Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 1
Long, stiff flight feathers on the wings and tail catch the air, and soft, fluffy down feathers close to the skin trap warm air like a duvet.
Who acts: Long stiff flight feathers, soft fluffy down feathers · What happens: catch, trap · To what, where: air, warm air
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» 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 (Long stiff flight feathers, soft fluffy down feathers), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feathers | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feathers | punct |
| 3 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feathers | amod |
| 4 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feathers | compound |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wings | det |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feathers | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tail | cc |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wings | conj |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 catch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 trap | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 trap | cc |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feathers | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fluffy | punct |
| 18 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feathers | amod |
| 19 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feathers | compound |
| 20 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trap | nsubj |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feathers | amod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 skin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 close | obl |
| 25 | trap | trap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | conj |
| 26 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 air | amod |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trap | obj |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 duvet | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 duvet | det |
| 30 | duvet | duvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trap | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | Long stiff flight feathers on the wings and tail | the air | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trap | present | soft fluffy down feathers | warm air | like a duvet | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.
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