Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 16
If a wasp or bee comes near, you stay calm and move away slowly without swatting, because swatting makes stings more likely.
Who acts: wasp, you, swatting · What happens: come, stay, move away, swat, make · To what, where: stings
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 (wasp, you, swatting), 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 | _ | 6 comes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wasp | det |
| 3 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 bee | cc |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wasp | conj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stay | advcl |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stay | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 move | cc |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stay | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 move | advmod |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 move | advmod |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 swatting | mark |
| 17 | swatting | swat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 move | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 makes | mark |
| 20 | swatting | swat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stay | advcl |
| 22 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 makes | obj |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 likely | advmod |
| 24 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | a wasp or bee | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | you | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move away | infinitive | you not said here | away, slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swat | gerund | you not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | present | swatting | stings | likely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sting=Product |
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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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