Kindness to animals, sentence 14

Some children in Ireland threw stones at a swan's nest; the swan attacked to protect its eggs, one child was hit by its wing, and the eggs were broken.

Who acts: children, swan, wing · What happens: throw, attack, protect, hit, break · To what, where: stones, nest, eggs, one child

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 (children, swan, wing), 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threw	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 children	nmod
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threw	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 nest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swan	det
9	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nest	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 swan	case
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 attacked	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swan	det
14	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attacked	nsubj
15	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 protect	mark
17	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 attacked	advcl
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eggs	nmod:poss
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 protect	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hit	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 child	nummod
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hit	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hit	aux:pass
24	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 threw	parataxis
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 wing	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wing	nmod:poss
27	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 broken	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 broken	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 eggs	det
31	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 broken	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 broken	aux:pass
33	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hit	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw	past	some children in Ireland	stones	a swan's nest	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at nest=Destination
2	attack	past	the swan			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	protect	to-infinitive	the swan not said here	swan's eggs		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary
4	hit	past · passive	swan's wing	one child		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
5	break	past · passive		the eggs		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:14.

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 ×2. 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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