Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 12

Bird flu spreads among wild birds and has killed many seabirds and even sea lions; people should never touch dead or sick birds and should tell an adult, who can report them.

Who acts: Bird flu, people, adult · What happens: spread, kill, not touch, tell, report · To what, where: many seabirds, dead birds, adult, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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 (Bird flu, people, adult), 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	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flu	compound
2	flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spreads	nsubj
3	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 birds	case
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spreads	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 killed	cc
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 killed	aux
9	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 spreads	conj
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seabirds	amod
11	seabirds	seabird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 killed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lions	cc
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 lions	advmod
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lions	compound
15	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seabirds	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 people	punct
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 touch	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 touch	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 touch	advmod
20	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spreads	parataxis
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 birds	amod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 sick	cc
23	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dead	conj
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 touch	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tell	cc
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 touch	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 adult	det
29	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 report	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 report	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 report	aux
33	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 adult	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 report	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spreads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Bird flu			among wild birds	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bird=Location
2	kill	present · perfect	Bird flu not said here	many seabirds and sea lions			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seabird=Theme
3	not touch	should	people	dead birds			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme
4	tell speech: assert	should	people not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	report	can	a adult	people			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:12.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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