Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 17
Australian magpies swoop people in spring to protect their nests.
Who acts: Australian magpies · What happens: swoop, protect · To what, where: people, nests
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 (Australian magpies), 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 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 magpies | amod |
| 2 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swoop | nsubj |
| 3 | swoop | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swoop | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spring | case |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swoop | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 protect | mark |
| 8 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swoop | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nests | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 protect | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swoop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop | present | Australian magpies | people | spring | tree rules | |||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | Australian magpies not said here | magpies's nests | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary |
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:17.
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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