The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 17
People should never walk on pond ice, because it can break suddenly; if a dog goes onto the ice, nobody should follow it, but call for help.
Who acts: People, ice, dog, nobody · What happens: not walk, break, go, follow, call · To what, where: pond ice, ice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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 (People, ice, dog, nobody), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 walk | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 walk | advmod |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ice | compound |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 break | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 break | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 break | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | aux |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 walk | advcl |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 break | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 goes | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 goes | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goes | nsubj |
| 18 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 follow | advcl |
| 19 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 21 ice | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ice | det |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goes | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 follow | punct |
| 23 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 follow | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 follow | aux |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 walk | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 call | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 call | cc |
| 29 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 follow | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 help | case |
| 31 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 call | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | 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 walk | should | People | pond ice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | break | can | ice | suddenly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | a dog | the ice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto ice=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | follow | should | nobody | ice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | infinitive | nobody not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:17.
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): R7-rel-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.
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