Kindness to animals, sentence 3

A boy in Galway wants to see a robin up close; he sits still and speaks quietly, and the robin hops nearer instead of flying off.

Who acts: boy, robin · What happens: want, see, sit, speak, hop, fly off · To what, where: robin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, robin), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Galway	case
4	Galway	Galway	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 robin	det
9	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 close	advmod
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 robin	amod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sits	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sits	nsubj
14	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wants	parataxis
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 sits	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 speaks	cc
17	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sits	conj
18	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	17 speaks	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hops	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hops	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hops	det
22	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hops	nsubj
23	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wants	conj
24	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 hops	xcomp
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 flying	mark
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 nearer	advcl
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 flying	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a boy in Galway				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Galway not said here	a robin			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robin=Stimulus
3	sit	present	boy		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	present	boy not said here			quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hop	present	robin			near property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fly off	gerund	robin not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:3.

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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