Horses, zebras and donkeys, sentence 4

And Eeyore is gloomy and cartoon donkeys are stubborn and stupid, but real donkeys are careful: they stop when they judge something unsafe.

Who acts: Eeyore, cartoon donkeys, real donkeys, feet · What happens: be, stop, judge · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, zebras and donkeys» 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 (Eeyore, cartoon donkeys, real donkeys, feet), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 gloomy	cc
2	Eeyore	Eeyore	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gloomy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gloomy	cop
4	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stubborn	cc
6	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 donkeys	compound
7	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stubborn	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stubborn	cop
9	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gloomy	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stupid	cc
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stubborn	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 careful	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 careful	cc
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 donkeys	amod
15	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 careful	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 careful	cop
17	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gloomy	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 stop	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stop	nsubj
20	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gloomy	conj
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 judge	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 judge	nsubj
23	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stop	advcl
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 judge	obj
25	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 something	amod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gloomy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Eeyore		gloomy property	tree rules
2	is	present	cartoon donkeys		stubborn property	tree rules
3	be		cartoon donkeys not said here			tree rules
4	is	present	real donkeys		careful property	tree rules
5	stop	present	feet = foot			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	judge	present	feet = foot	something		vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent something=Value

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:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.lesson:4.

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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