Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 10

Geese defend their nests fiercely and hiss at people; they are big and brave and have been kept as guards, and an old Roman story tells of geese warning of a night attack.

Who acts: Geese, old Roman story · What happens: defend, hiss, be, keep, tell, warn · To what, where: nests, night attack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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 (Geese, old Roman story), 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	Geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 defend	nsubj
2	defend	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nests	nmod:poss
4	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 defend	obj
5	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	2 defend	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hiss	cc
7	hiss	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 defend	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hiss	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 big	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 big	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 big	cop
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 defend	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brave	cc
15	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 big	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kept	cc
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 kept	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 kept	aux:pass
19	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 big	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 guards	case
21	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tells	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tells	cc
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 story	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 story	amod
26	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 story	compound
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tells	nsubj
28	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 defend	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 warning	case
30	geese	geese	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 warning	compound
31	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tells	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 attack	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 attack	det
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 attack	compound
35	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 warning	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 defend	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	defend	present	Geese	Geese's nests	fiercely property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary
2	hiss	present	Geese not said here		at people	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at people=Location
3	is	present	Geese = goose		big property	tree rules
4	be		Geese = goose not said here			tree rules
5	keep	present · perfect · passive	Geese = goose not said here		as guards	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»
6	tell speech: assert	present	a old Roman story		of geese warning of a night attack	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	warn			a night attack		nom warning «communication transitive»: of=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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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