Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 20
The best way to enjoy wild animals is to watch them quietly from far away.
Who acts: best way · What happens: enjoy, be · To what, where: wild 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 (best way), 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 | 3 way | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watch | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 enjoy | mark |
| 5 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 way | acl |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | amod |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enjoy | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 watch | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 watch | mark |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watch | obj |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 10 watch | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 far | case |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 watch | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | to-infinitive | the best way not said here | wild animals | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the best way | far, quietly, watch 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:20.
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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