Kindness to animals, sentence 10
Sudden movements and loud noises frighten small animals and can make them bite, scratch or run.
Who acts: Sudden movements, animals · What happens: frighten, make, bite, scratch, run · To what, where: small animals, animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» 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 (Sudden movements, animals), 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 | Sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 movements | amod |
| 2 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frighten | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 noises | cc |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noises | amod |
| 5 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 movements | conj |
| 6 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animals | amod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frighten | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 frighten | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scratch | punct |
| 15 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bite | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 run | cc |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bite | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | present | Sudden movements and loud noises | small animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | can | Sudden movements and loud noises not said here | animals = animal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bite | infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scratch | infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run | infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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