Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 1
The two golden rules are keep your distance and never feed wild animals: an animal that gets used to human food loses its fear of people, comes looking for more and may get aggressive, and often has to be put down.
Who acts: two golden rules, animal, food · What happens: keep, not feed, use, lose, come, look · To what, where: distance, wild animals, animal, fear, people
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 (two golden rules, animal, food), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rules | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 rules | nummod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rules | amod |
| 4 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 distance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feed | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 feed | advmod |
| 11 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 keep | conj |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 animals | amod |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feed | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 animal | det |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 loses | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 used | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 used | aux:pass |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 animal | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 food | amod |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 used | obl |
| 23 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | parataxis |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fear | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 loses | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fear | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 comes | punct |
| 29 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 loses | conj |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 comes | xcomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 more | case |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 looking | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 get | cc |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 get | aux |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 keep | conj |
| 36 | aggressive | aggressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 get | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 has | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 has | cc |
| 39 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 has | advmod |
| 40 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 put | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 put | aux:pass |
| 43 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 has | xcomp |
| 44 | down | down | ADP | _ | 43 put | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the two golden rules | your distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not feed | infinitive | the two golden rules not said here | wild animals | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | a animal | to human food | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lose | present | a animal | food's fear of people | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | come | present | a animal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | gerund | a animal not said here | for more | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for more=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get | may | the two golden rules not said here | aggressive property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | have | present | often property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | put down | to-infinitive · passive | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||||
| 10 | fear | food | people | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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:1.
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): 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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