Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 13

Gazelles are slim, fast antelopes of Africa and Asia that escape cheetahs and lions by running and dodging, and they sometimes bounce on stiff legs, called pronking or stotting, which may tell a hunter «I am fit, don't chase me».

Who acts: Gazelles, fast antelopes, stiff legs, I · What happens: be, escape, run, dodge, bounce, call · To what, where: cheetahs, stiff legs, pronking, hunter, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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 (Gazelles, fast antelopes, stiff legs, I), 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	Gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slim	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slim	cop
3	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 antelopes	punct
5	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 antelopes	amod
6	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slim	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Africa	case
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 antelopes	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Asia	cc
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Africa	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 escape	nsubj
12	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 antelopes	acl:relcl
13	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 escape	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lions	cc
15	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cheetahs	conj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 running	mark
17	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 escape	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dodging	cc
19	dodging	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 running	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bounce	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bounce	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bounce	nsubj
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 bounce	advmod
24	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slim	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 legs	case
26	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 legs	amod
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bounce	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 legs	acl
30	pronking	pronk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 stotting	cc
32	stotting	stott	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 pronking	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 tell	nsubj
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 tell	aux
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bounce	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hunter	det
38	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tell	obj
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	42 fit	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 fit	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 fit	cop
42	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tell	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 chase	punct
44	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 chase	aux
45	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 chase	advmod
46	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 tell	conj
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 chase	obj
48	»	»	PUNCT	_	46 chase	punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gazelles			slim property	tree rules
2	escape	present	fast antelopes of Africa and Asia	cheetahs and lions			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cheetah=Initial_Location
3	run	gerund	fast antelopes of Africa and Asia not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dodge	gerund	fast antelopes of Africa and Asia not said here				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	bounce	present	Gazelles = gazelle		stiff legs	sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
6	call	participle	stiff legs not said here	pronking			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	stott	gerund	stiff legs not said here				tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	may		a hunter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hunter=Recipient
9	is in a quote	present	I			fit property	tree rules
10	not chase in a quote	infinitive · do-support		me			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:13.

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, 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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