Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 4
The best protection is respect: do not grab, squeeze or corner animals, ask the owner before stroking a dog, leave nests alone and check your skin after walks in long grass.
Who acts: best protection · What happens: be, not grab, squeeze, corner, ask, stroke · To what, where: respect, animals, owner, dog, nests, skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 (best protection), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 protection | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 protection | amod |
| 3 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 respect | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 respect | cop |
| 5 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 grab | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 grab | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 grab | advmod |
| 9 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 respect | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 squeeze | punct |
| 11 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 grab | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 corner | cc |
| 13 | corner | corner | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 squeeze | conj |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 corner | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 grab | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 owner | det |
| 18 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | obj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 stroking | mark |
| 20 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 ask | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stroking | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leave | punct |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 grab | conj |
| 25 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 leave | obj |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 25 nests | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 check | cc |
| 28 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 leave | conj |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 skin | nmod:poss |
| 30 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 check | obj |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 walks | case |
| 32 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 check | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 grass | case |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 grass | amod |
| 35 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 walks | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 respect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best protection | respect | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grab | infinitive · do-support | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | squeeze | infinitive | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | corner | infinitive | animals | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | stroke | gerund | a dog | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | leave | infinitive | nests | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | |||||
| 8 | check | infinitive | your skin | after walks in long grass | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:4.
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. 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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