Kindness to wild animals, sentence 0

Walking through a meadow, a family finds a baby deer curled up alone in the long grass and wants to rescue it, but its mother is almost certainly nearby, feeding, and the kindest thing is to walk quietly away.

Who acts: family, mother, kindest thing · What happens: walk, find, curl up, want, rescue, be · To what, where: meadow, baby deer, long grass, deer

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» 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 (family, mother, kindest thing), 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	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 finds	advcl
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 meadow	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meadow	det
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Walking	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finds	nsubj
8	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 deer	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deer	compound
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finds	obj
12	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 deer	acl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 curled	compound:prt
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 curled	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grass	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grass	amod
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 curled	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wants	cc
20	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 finds	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rescue	mark
22	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wants	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rescue	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 nearby	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 nearby	cc
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nearby	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 nearby	cop
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 certainly	advmod
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	31 nearby	advmod
31	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	8 finds	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 feeding	punct
33	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 nearby	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 walk	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 walk	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 thing	det
37	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 thing	amod
38	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 walk	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 walk	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	41 walk	mark
41	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 finds	conj
42	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	41 walk	advmod
43	away	away	ADV	_	41 walk	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 finds	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	a family not said here		a meadow		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory
2	find	present	a family	a baby deer			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Topic
3	curl up	participle		a baby deer not said here	the long grass	alone property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
4	want	present	a family not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	rescue not said to happen	to-infinitive	a family not said here	deer			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is	present	family's mother			certainly, nearby property	tree rules
7	feed	gerund	family's mother not said here				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	the kindest thing			away, quietly, walk property	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:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:0.

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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