Litter and caring for nature, sentence 18

If you see someone harm an animal or start a fire, do not argue; tell a grown-up, a ranger or the police.

Who acts: you, someone · What happens: see, harm, start, not argue, tell · To what, where: animal, fire, grown · Speech: someone speaks here

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, someone), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 see	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 argue	advcl
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 harm	nsubj
5	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harm	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 start	cc
9	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harm	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 start	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 argue	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 argue	advmod
15	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 argue	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 grown	det
19	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 up	punct
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 grown	compound
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ranger	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ranger	det
24	ranger	ranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 police	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 police	det
27	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ranger	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 argue	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	harm	infinitive	someone	a animal	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer
3	start	infinitive	someone not said here	a fire	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality
4	not argue speech: disagree	imperative · do-support	you not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a grown and a ranger or the police	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient

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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/18/