What a child can do for nature, sentence 4

The best help is often to leave things alone: watch a frog instead of taking it home, and let a baby bird on the ground be fed by its parents.

Who acts: parents · What happens: be, watch, take, let, feed · To what, where: frog, baby bird, ground

This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 (parents), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 help	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 help	amod
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	cop
5	often	often	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	acl:relcl
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	obj
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leave	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 watch	punct
11	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 help	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 frog	det
13	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watch	obj
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 taking	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 watch	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taking	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 taking	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 watch	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bird	det
23	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bird	compound
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bird	nmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 fed	aux:pass
29	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 let	xcomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 parents	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 parents	nmod:poss
32	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fed	obl:agent
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				alone, leave, often property	tree rules
2	watch	infinitive		a frog			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme
3	take	gerund		frog		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	let	infinitive		a baby bird	the ground		tree rules
5	feed	infinitive · passive	ground's parents				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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): R5-strong ×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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