Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 0
Wild animals are not pets: even a calm-looking bear, alligator, kangaroo or fox can bite, scratch or charge if it feels cornered, surprised or protective of its young.
Who acts: Wild animals, looking bear · What happens: not be, look, bite, scratch, charge, corner · To what, where: pets
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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 (Wild animals, looking bear), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pets | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pets | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pets | advmod |
| 5 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 pets | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 bear | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 9 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looking | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 calm | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 bear | amod |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bite | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alligator | punct |
| 14 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kangaroo | punct |
| 16 | kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 fox | cc |
| 18 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | conj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bite | aux |
| 20 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pets | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scratch | punct |
| 22 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bite | conj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 charge | cc |
| 24 | charge | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bite | conj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 feels | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 feels | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 cornered | aux:pass |
| 28 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bite | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 surprised | punct |
| 30 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cornered | conj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 protective | cc |
| 32 | protective | protective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cornered | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 young | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 young | nmod:poss |
| 35 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 protective | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Wild animals | pets | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | bite | can | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scratch | infinitive | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | charge | infinitive | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | corner | present · passive | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox 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:026-wild-animals.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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/26-wild-animals/0/