Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 18
Foxes and badgers may bite if they are cornered or touched.
Who acts: Foxes · What happens: bite, corner, touch · To what, where: badgers
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 (Foxes), 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 | Foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bite | cc |
| 3 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Foxes | conj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bite | aux |
| 5 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 cornered | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cornered | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cornered | aux:pass |
| 9 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bite | advcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 touched | cc |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cornered | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bite | 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 | bite | may | Foxes and badgers | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | corner a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | badgers = badger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18.
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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