Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 19
Take only a few stones, shells and leaves, and only where it is allowed, because some parks and beaches forbid taking natural things.
Who acts: you, parks · What happens: take, allow, forbid · To what, where: few stones, grown, natural things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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, parks), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 stones | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stones | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stones | amod |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shells | punct |
| 7 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stones | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leaves | cc |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stones | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 allowed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 allowed | cc |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 where | advmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 allowed | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 allowed | aux:pass |
| 16 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Take | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forbid | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 forbid | mark |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 parks | det |
| 20 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 forbid | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beaches | cc |
| 22 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 parks | conj |
| 23 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | advcl |
| 24 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 forbid | xcomp |
| 25 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 things | amod |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taking | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a few stones and shells and leaves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | grown = grow | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | forbid | present | some parks and beaches | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | some parks and beaches not said here | natural things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:19.
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, R5-strong ×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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