Litter and caring for nature, sentence 12
Never release balloons outdoors, because they come down as litter that animals swallow or get tangled in.
Who acts: you, animals · What happens: not release, come down, swallow, get, tangle · To what, where: balloons, litter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» 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, animals), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 release | advmod |
| 2 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | balloons | balloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 release | obj |
| 4 | outdoors | outdoors | ADV | _ | 2 release | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 release | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 litter | case |
| 11 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 swallow | obj |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swallow | nsubj |
| 14 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 litter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 swallow | conj |
| 17 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 swallow | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 tangled | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 release | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not release | imperative | you not said here | balloons | outdoors property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer balloon=Source | |||
| 2 | come down | present | animals = animal | as litter; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swallow | present | animals | litter | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | animals not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | tangle | participle | animals not said here | tree rules |
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:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.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): 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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