Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 1
Its tail fin drives it forward, and its other fins steer and keep it upright.
Who acts: fin, other fins · What happens: drive, steer, keep · To what, where: fish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» 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 (fin, other fins), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | compound |
| 3 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | nsubj |
| 4 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drives | obj |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 drives | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 steer | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 steer | cc |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fins | nmod:poss |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fins | amod |
| 11 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 steer | nsubj |
| 12 | steer | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drives | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 keep | cc |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 steer | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | upright | upright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drives | 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 | drive | present | fish's fin | fish | forward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | steer | present | fish's other fins | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | fish's other fins not said here | fish | upright property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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