Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 16
Tapping on glass, shouting and flash photos frighten animals, which cannot leave as easily as visitors can.
Who acts: Tapping photos, animals · What happens: frighten, not leave · To what, where: animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why zoos exist and what critics say» of the biology 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 (Tapping photos, animals), 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 | Tapping | tapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 photos | compound |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 glass | case |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tapping | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouting | punct |
| 5 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tapping | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flash | cc |
| 7 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouting | conj |
| 8 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 frighten | nsubj |
| 9 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 frighten | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 leave | advmod |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 animals | acl:relcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 easily | advmod |
| 17 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 15 leave | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 can | mark |
| 19 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 can | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | present | Tapping photos | animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not leave | can | animals | easily property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.lesson:16.
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): no change. 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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