Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 16
Male kangaroos can kick and scratch very hard, so they should be watched from a distance.
Who acts: Male kangaroos · What happens: kick, scratch, watch · To what, where: animals
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 (Male kangaroos), 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 | Male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kangaroos | amod |
| 2 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kick | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kick | aux |
| 4 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 scratch | cc |
| 6 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kick | conj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 hard | advmod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 scratch | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watched | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 watched | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 watched | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 watched | aux:pass |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kick | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 distance | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 distance | det |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watched | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | can | Male kangaroos | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | scratch | infinitive | Male kangaroos not said here | hard property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | watch | should · passive | animals = animal | from a distance | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: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): R1-cc-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.
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