The city as a habitat, sentence 4
City animals are wild animals, so watch them, but do not feed, chase or touch them.
Who acts: City animals · What happens: be, watch, not feed, chase, touch · To what, where: wild animals, tits
This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 (City 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 | City | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 animals | compound |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | cop |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watch | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 watch | advmod |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 watch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 feed | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 feed | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 feed | advmod |
| 14 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 watch | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chase | punct |
| 16 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 feed | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 touch | cc |
| 18 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 chase | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 touch | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | City animals | wild animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | tits = tit | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not feed | infinitive · do-support | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | chase | infinitive | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | touch | infinitive | tits = tit | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:4.
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. 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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