Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 2
Think of a dog that growls behind a fence: it is dangerous only if you climb in, and venomous animals are the same, so leaving them alone keeps you safe.
Who acts: you, dog, most, venomous animals, leaving · What happens: think, growl, be, climb, leave, keep · To what, where: fence, animals, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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 (you, dog, most, venomous 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 dog | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 growls | nsubj |
| 6 | growls | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dog | acl:relcl |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 fence | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fence | det |
| 9 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growls | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 dangerous | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dangerous | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dangerous | cop |
| 13 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 climb | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 climb | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 climb | nsubj |
| 17 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dangerous | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 climb | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 same | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 same | cc |
| 21 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 animals | amod |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 same | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 same | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leaving | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 keeps | advmod |
| 28 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 keeps | csubj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 leaving | obj |
| 30 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 31 keeps | advmod |
| 31 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 keeps | obj |
| 33 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 keeps | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a dog | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | growl | present | a dog | a fence | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind fence=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | most | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | climb a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | venomous animals | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | animals = animal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 7 | keep | present | leaving | you | alone, safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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