Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo, sentence 6

Some roosters attack people to protect their hens, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner.

Who acts: roosters, you · What happens: attack, protect, walk away, tell · To what, where: people, hens, owner · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (roosters, you), 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 roosters	det
2	roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attack	nsubj
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	to	to	PART	_	6 protect	mark
6	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 attack	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hens	nmod:poss
8	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 protect	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walk	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 walk	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
12	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 attack	parataxis
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 walk	advmod
14	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	12 walk	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 walk	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 owner	det
18	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 attack	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	attack	present	some roosters	people			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	protect	to-infinitive	some roosters not said here		people's hens		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary
3	walk away	present	you			away, calmly property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the owner			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=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: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, 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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