Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 9
European bison are calmer than American bison but are still dangerous if people come too close.
Who acts: European bison, people · What happens: be, come
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (European bison, 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 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bison | amod |
| 2 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 calmer | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 calmer | cop |
| 4 | calmer | calm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 bison | case |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bison | amod |
| 7 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calmer | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 dangerous | cc |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dangerous | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 dangerous | advmod |
| 11 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calmer | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dangerous | advcl |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 close | advmod |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 come | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calmer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | European bison | than American bison; calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | European bison not said here | still | dangerous property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | people | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:9.
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, 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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