Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo, sentence 16
A girl in Colorado climbed into a field to stroke a calf; the mother cow charged, knocked her down and she was badly bruised before a farmer pulled her out.
Who acts: girl, mother cow, farmer · What happens: climb, stroke, charge, knock down, bruise, pull out · To what, where: field, calf, cow, girl
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» 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, mother cow, farmer), 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 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Colorado | case |
| 4 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stroke | mark |
| 10 | stroke | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 climbed | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 calf | det |
| 12 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stroke | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 charged | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cow | compound |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 charged | nsubj |
| 17 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knocked | punct |
| 19 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 charged | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knocked | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 knocked | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bruised | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bruised | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bruised | aux:pass |
| 25 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 bruised | advmod |
| 26 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 charged | conj |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 pulled | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 farmer | det |
| 29 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pulled | nsubj |
| 30 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bruised | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pulled | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 pulled | compound:prt |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | a girl in Colorado | a field | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stroke | to-infinitive | a girl in Colorado not said here | a calf | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | charge | past | the mother cow | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | knock down | past | the mother cow not said here | cow | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bruise | past · passive | girl | badly property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | pull out | past | a farmer | cow | tree rules |
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:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.lesson:16.
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): 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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