Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 5

Donkeys are not really stubborn: when something seems dangerous they stop to check instead of running, which kept wild donkeys safe on rocky ground.

Who acts: Donkeys, something, coats · What happens: not be, seem, stop, check, run, keep · To what, where: wild donkeys

This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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 (Donkeys, something, coats), 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	Donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stubborn	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stubborn	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stubborn	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 stubborn	advmod
5	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 seems	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 seems	mark
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 seems	nsubj
9	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	advcl
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seems	xcomp
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stop	nsubj
12	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stubborn	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 check	mark
14	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stop	xcomp
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 running	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 check	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 running	acl:relcl
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 donkeys	amod
22	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	obj
23	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ground	amod
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 safe	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stubborn	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Donkeys		stubborn property	tree rules
2	seem	present	something		dangerous property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	coats = coat			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	check	to-infinitive	coats = coat not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	run	gerund	coats = coat not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	keep	past		wild donkeys	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=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:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:5.

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, 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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