The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 10
Badgers are protected by law in Britain, so nobody may harm a badger or block or dig into a sett.
Who acts: law, nobody · What happens: protect, harm, dig · To what, where: Badgers, Britain, badger
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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 (law, 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 | Badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 protected | aux:pass |
| 3 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 law | case |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 protected | obl:agent |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Britain | case |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 protected | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harm | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 harm | advmod |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 harm | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 harm | aux |
| 12 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 protected | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 badger | det |
| 14 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harm | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 block | cc |
| 16 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 badger | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 dig | cc |
| 18 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 harm | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 sett | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sett | det |
| 21 | sett | sett | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dig | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 protected | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present · passive | law | Badgers | Britain | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | harm | may | nobody | a badger or block | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus badger=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | dig | infinitive | nobody not said here | into a sett | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into sett=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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:10.
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 ×1, 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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