Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 9

Some farmers keep donkeys to guard sheep and goats, because donkeys dislike dogs and foxes and may chase or kick them away, though not every donkey does.

Who acts: farmers, donkeys · What happens: keep, guard, dislike, chase, kick away · To what, where: donkeys, sheep, dogs

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 (farmers, donkeys), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 farmers	det
2	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 guard	mark
6	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 donkeys	acl
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guard	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 goats	cc
9	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sheep	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dislike	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 dislike	mark
12	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dislike	nsubj
13	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dislike	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 foxes	cc
16	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dogs	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chase	cc
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 chase	aux
19	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dislike	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 kick	cc
21	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 chase	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kick	obj
23	away	away	ADV	_	21 kick	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 does	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 does	mark
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 donkey	advmod
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 donkey	det
28	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 does	nsubj
29	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 chase	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	some farmers	donkeys			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme
2	guard	to-infinitive	some farmers not said here	donkeys not said here	sheep and goats		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary
3	dislike	present	donkeys	dogs and foxes			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
4	chase	may	donkeys not said here				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	kick away	infinitive	donkeys not said here	dogs = dog		away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:9.

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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