Kindness to wild animals, sentence 9
Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings, so cutting the rings before throwing them away helps.
Who acts: Animals, cutting · What happens: get, catch, cut, throw away, help · To what, where: heads, plastic drink rings, rings
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 (Animals, cutting), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 beaks | cc |
| 7 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heads | conj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 get | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rings | case |
| 10 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rings | amod |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rings | compound |
| 12 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 caught | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cutting | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 helps | advmod |
| 15 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 helps | csubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rings | det |
| 17 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cutting | obj |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 throwing | mark |
| 19 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 cutting | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 throwing | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 throwing | advmod |
| 22 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | Animals | animals's heads or beaks | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | catch | participle | Animals not said here | plastic drink rings | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cut | gerund | the rings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | |||||
| 4 | throw away | gerund | rings = ring | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | present | cutting | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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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