Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 12
A rabbit thumps its back foot on the ground to warn of danger, because rabbits are prey animals and always on the lookout.
Who acts: rabbit, rabbits · What happens: thump, warn, be · To what, where: back foot, prey animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» 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 (rabbit, rabbits), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thumps | nsubj |
| 3 | thumps | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | compound |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thumps | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thumps | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 warn | mark |
| 11 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thumps | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 danger | case |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 animals | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 animals | mark |
| 16 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 animals | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 animals | cop |
| 18 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 animals | compound |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 warn | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lookout | cc |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 lookout | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 lookout | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lookout | det |
| 24 | lookout | lookout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 animals | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thumps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | present | a rabbit | side's back foot | on the ground | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent foot=Instrument on ground=Patient | |||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | a rabbit not said here | of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of danger=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | rabbits | prey animals and the lookout | tree rules |
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:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:12.
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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