Thinking about noticing, sentence 6
A girl in Montana noticed a mother moose with a calf on the trail ahead and turned back; a hiker who had not noticed walked closer and was charged.
Who acts: girl, hiker · What happens: notice, turn back, not notice, walk, charge · To what, where: mother moose
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday 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 (girl, hiker), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Montana | case |
| 4 | Montana | Montana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moose | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moose | compound |
| 8 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 calf | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 calf | det |
| 11 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moose | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 trail | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trail | det |
| 14 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calf | nmod |
| 15 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 14 trail | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 hiker | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hiker | det |
| 21 | hiker | hiker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 noticed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 noticed | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 noticed | advmod |
| 25 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 hiker | acl:relcl |
| 26 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | conj |
| 27 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 walked | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 charged | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 charged | aux:pass |
| 30 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 walked | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | a girl in Montana | a mother moose | with a calf on the trail | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer moose=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn back | past | a girl in Montana not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not notice | past · perfect | a hiker | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | a hiker | close property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | charge | past · passive | a hiker not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V» |
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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:6.
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. 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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