Kindness to wild animals, sentence 10
A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs; a stone in it lets insects climb out.
Who acts: shallow dish, stone, insects · What happens: help, let, climb out · To what, where: birds, hot weather, insects
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 (shallow dish, stone, insects), 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 | 3 dish | det |
| 2 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dish | amod |
| 3 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dish | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 weather | case |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weather | amod |
| 8 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 helps | obl |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 helps | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bees | punct |
| 12 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 birds | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hedgehogs | cc |
| 14 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 birds | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lets | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lets | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stone | nmod |
| 20 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 helps | parataxis |
| 21 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lets | obj |
| 22 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lets | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 climb | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a shallow dish of water | birds and bees and hedgehogs | hot weather | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | let | present | a stone in dish | insects | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb out | infinitive | insects not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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): 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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