Kindness to wild animals, sentence 16
Hedgehogs must never be given cow's milk, which upsets their stomachs; water is best.
Who acts: milk, water · What happens: not give, upset, be · To what, where: Hedgehogs, stomachs
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 (milk, water), 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 | Hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 given | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 milk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 cow | case |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 upsets | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 upsets | nsubj |
| 11 | upsets | upset | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 milk | acl:relcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stomachs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | stomachs | stomach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 upsets | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 best | punct |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 best | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 best | cop |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 given | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | must · passive | Hedgehogs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient milk=Theme | |||||
| 2 | upset | present | cow's milk | hedgehogs's stomachs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stomach=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | present | water | good 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:16.
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): no change. 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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