Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 13
A rabbit must never be lifted by its ears; hold it with one hand under its chest and one under its bottom, close to your body, because it can kick and hurt its back.
Who acts: ears, side · What happens: not lift, hold, kick, hurt · To what, where: rabbit, side, chest, back
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 (ears, side), 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 | 6 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 lifted | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lifted | aux:pass |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 ears | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lifted | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lifted | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hand | nummod |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 chest | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chest | nmod:poss |
| 18 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bottom | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hand | conj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 bottom | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bottom | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chest | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 close | punct |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 body | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 body | nmod:poss |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 close | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kick | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 kick | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 kick | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 kick | aux |
| 33 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hold | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hurt | cc |
| 35 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 kick | conj |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 back | nmod:poss |
| 37 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hurt | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | 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 | not lift | must · passive | side's ears | a rabbit | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | infinitive | side | side's chest and side's bottom | with one hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme under chest=Location | |||
| 3 | kick | can | side | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hurt | infinitive | side not said here | side's back | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=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:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.lesson:13.
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 ×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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