More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 9
Toads do not give people warts; warts are caused by a virus passed between people, but some toads have poison glands, so wash your hands after touching one.
Who acts: Toads, virus · What happens: not give, cause, pass, have, wash, touch · To what, where: warts, people, virus, poison glands, hands, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 (Toads, virus), 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 | Toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | warts | wart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 caused | punct |
| 8 | warts | wart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 caused | aux:pass |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 give | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 virus | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 virus | det |
| 13 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caused | obl |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 virus | acl |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 passed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 toads | det |
| 20 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 caused | parataxis |
| 22 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glands | compound |
| 23 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wash | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 wash | advmod |
| 26 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 wash | obj |
| 29 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 touching | mark |
| 30 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 wash | advcl |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 touching | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | present · do-support | Toads | warts | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient wart=Theme | |||
| 2 | cause | present · passive | a virus | warts | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass | participle | a virus not said here | between people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between people=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | some toads | poison glands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wash | infinitive | Toads not said here | your hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 6 | touch | gerund | Toads not said here | one | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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): 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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