Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo, sentence 4

Sharks rarely attack people, because we are not their normal food; seagulls grab food only because people taught them to by feeding them.

Who acts: Sharks, we, seagulls, people · What happens: attack, not be, grab, teach, feed · To what, where: people, normal food, food, seagulls

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 (Sharks, we, seagulls, 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	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attack	nsubj
2	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	3 attack	advmod
3	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attack	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 food	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 food	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 food	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 food	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 food	advmod
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attack	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 seagulls	punct
14	seagulls	seagull	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grab	nsubj
15	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 attack	parataxis
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grab	obj
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 taught	advmod
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 taught	mark
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 taught	nsubj
20	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grab	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taught	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	20 taught	xcomp
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 feeding	mark
24	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 taught	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feeding	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 attack	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	attack	present	Sharks	people		rarely property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	not is a	present	we	Sharks's normal food			tree rules
3	grab	present	seagulls	food			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	teach speech: other	past	people		seagulls = seagull		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	feed	gerund	people not said here	seagulls = seagull			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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: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): 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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