Kindness to animals, sentence 12
A wild animal is watched quietly from a distance, not chased or grabbed.
What happens: watch, not chase, grab · To what, where: wild animal
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: 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 | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | aux:pass |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 watched | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 distance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 distance | det |
| 9 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chased | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 chased | advmod |
| 12 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 watched | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 grabbed | cc |
| 14 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 chased | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · passive | a wild animal | from a distance; quietly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not chase | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | grab | participle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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