Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 15
Donkeys, llamas and sheepdogs are used to guard flocks, and a guard donkey will chase away foxes and stray dogs.
Who acts: guard donkey · What happens: use, guard, chase away · To what, where: Donkeys, flocks, foxes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» 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 (guard donkey), 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 | Donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 llamas | punct |
| 3 | llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Donkeys | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sheepdogs | cc |
| 5 | sheepdogs | sheepdog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Donkeys | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 guard | mark |
| 9 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | advcl |
| 10 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 guard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chase | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chase | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 donkey | det |
| 14 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 donkey | compound |
| 15 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chase | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 chase | aux |
| 17 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 chase | advmod |
| 19 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chase | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dogs | cc |
| 21 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dogs | amod |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 foxes | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | Donkeys and llamas and sheepdogs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | flocks | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | chase away | future | a guard donkey | foxes and stray dogs | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:15.
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 ×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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