Litter and caring for nature, sentence 16
Look at wild frogs, lizards and tadpoles but leave them in their home; they usually die in captivity and some are protected.
Who acts: you, tadpoles · What happens: look, leave, die, protect · To what, where: tadpoles, home, some
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, tadpoles), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 frogs | case |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frogs | amod |
| 4 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lizards | punct |
| 6 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frogs | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tadpoles | cc |
| 8 | tadpoles | tadpole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frogs | conj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 leave | cc |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 die | nsubj |
| 17 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 18 die | advmod |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 captivity | case |
| 20 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 die | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 protected | cc |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 protected | aux:pass |
| 24 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 die | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at wild frogs and lizards and tadpoles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at frog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | tadpoles = tadpole | tadpoles's home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in home=Location | |||
| 3 | die | present | tadpoles = tadpole | in captivity; usually property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in captivity=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | protect | present · passive | some | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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:16.
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. 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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