Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 15
Alligators can lunge very fast over a short distance, in the water and on land.
Who acts: Alligators · What happens: lunge · To what, where: water
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 (Alligators), 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 | Alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lunge | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lunge | aux |
| 3 | lunge | lunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 lunge | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 distance | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 distance | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 distance | amod |
| 9 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lunge | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lunge | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 land | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lunge | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lunge | can | Alligators | the water and land | over a short distance; fast property | 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:15.
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): no change. 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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