Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 18
Watch wild animals quietly from far away and never feed or touch them.
Who acts: you · What happens: watch, not feed, touch · To what, where: wild animals, animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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 (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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Watch | obj |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 1 Watch | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 away | case |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Watch | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feed | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 feed | advmod |
| 10 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 touch | cc |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 feed | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touch | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | wild animals | quietly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 2 | not feed | infinitive | you not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | touch | infinitive | you not said here | animals = animal | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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