Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards, sentence 7

About 1,200 sika deer roam freely in Nara, Japan, as protected sacred animals; many have learned to bob their heads for special crackers, and they sometimes butt people who tease them.

Who acts: 1,200 sika deer, many, stripes, people · What happens: roam, protect, learn, bob, butt, tease · To what, where: protected sacred animals, Nara, heads, people, stripes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 (1,200 sika deer, many, stripes, people), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 1,200	advmod
2	1,200	1200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 deer	nummod
3	sika	sika	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deer	compound
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roam	nsubj
5	roam	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	freely	freely	ADV	_	5 roam	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Nara	case
8	Nara	Nara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 roam	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Japan	punct
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Nara	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 protected	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 protected	mark
13	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 animals	amod
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animals	amod
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roam	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 learned	punct
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 learned	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	aux
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 roam	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bob	mark
21	bob	bob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 learned	xcomp
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heads	nmod:poss
23	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bob	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 crackers	case
25	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 crackers	amod
26	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bob	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 butt	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 butt	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 butt	nsubj
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	31 butt	advmod
31	butt	butt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	conj
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 butt	obj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 tease	nsubj
34	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 people	acl:relcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tease	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 roam	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roam	present	1,200 sika deer	protected sacred animals	Nara	freely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nara=Trajectory
2	protect	participle					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	learn	present · perfect	many				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bob	to-infinitive	many not said here	stripes's heads		for special crackers	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	butt	present	stripes = stripe	people		sometimes property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent people=Instrument
6	tease	present	people	stripes = stripe			vn bully-59.5 «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:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.lesson:7.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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