Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 21

Wild boar dig up the forest floor with their snouts for roots and worms; they usually avoid people, but a mother with stripy piglets may charge, so go back the way you came and never get between a mother and her young.

Who acts: Wild boar, nests, mother, you · What happens: dig up, avoid, charge, go back, come, not get · To what, where: forest floor, people, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 (Wild boar, nests, mother, you), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boar	amod
2	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dig	nsubj
3	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 dig	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	compound
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dig	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 snouts	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 snouts	nmod:poss
10	snouts	snout	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dig	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 roots	case
12	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dig	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 worms	cc
14	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 roots	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 avoid	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 avoid	nsubj
17	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 avoid	advmod
18	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dig	parataxis
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 avoid	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 charge	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 charge	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mother	det
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 charge	nsubj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 piglets	case
25	stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 piglets	amod
26	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mother	nmod
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 charge	aux
28	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 avoid	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dig	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl:unmarked
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 way	acl:relcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 get	cc
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 get	advmod
39	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
40	between	between	ADP	_	42 mother	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 mother	det
42	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 get	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 young	cc
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 young	nmod:poss
45	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mother	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dig	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dig up	present	Wild boar	the forest floor	with nests's snouts; for roots and worms	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent floor=Theme with snout=Instrument
2	avoid	present	nests = nest	people	usually property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location
3	charge	may	a mother with stripy piglets			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go back	infinitive	Wild boar not said here	the way		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	come	past	you	the way not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
6	not get	infinitive	Wild boar not said here		between a mother and mother's young	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:21.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, 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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