How animals defend themselves, sentence 13
Some people are dangerously allergic to stings and need help fast.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, need · To what, where: help
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» 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 (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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allergic | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allergic | cop |
| 4 | dangerously | dangerously | ADV | _ | 5 allergic | advmod |
| 5 | allergic | allergic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stings | case |
| 7 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allergic | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 need | cc |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allergic | conj |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obj |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 need | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allergic | 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 | some people | to stings; allergic, dangerously property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | some people not said here | help | fast property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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