Kindness to wild animals, sentence 13
If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lights and leave the room; the bat usually finds its own way out, and it should not be touched with bare hands.
Who acts: bat, you · What happens: fly, open, turn off, leave, find, not touch · To what, where: house, windows, lights, room, own way, bat
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 (bat, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 flies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bat | det |
| 3 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | nsubj |
| 4 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 open | advcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flies | punct |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 windows | det |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 9 open | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 open | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 turn | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lights | det |
| 17 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leave | cc |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 open | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 finds | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bat | det |
| 24 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 finds | nsubj |
| 25 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 26 finds | advmod |
| 26 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 open | conj |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 way | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 way | amod |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 finds | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 29 way | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 touched | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 touched | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 touched | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 touched | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 touched | aux:pass |
| 37 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 finds | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 hands | case |
| 39 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 hands | amod |
| 40 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 touched | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 open | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly a condition, not said to happen | present | a bat | into a house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | ||||
| 2 | open | imperative | you not said here | the windows | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn off | infinitive | you not said here | the lights | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | present | the bat | bat's own way | usually property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 6 | not touch | should · passive | bat | with bare hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with hand=Instrument |
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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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