Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 4
In Australia, kangaroos can kick and scratch hard, and in spring magpies swoop to guard their nests: cover your head, walk quickly away from the nest area, and get off and walk your bike.
Who acts: kangaroos, spring magpies · What happens: kick, scratch, swoop, guard, cover, walk · To what, where: Australia, nests, head, bike
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 (kangaroos, spring 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Australia | case |
| 2 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kick | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Australia | punct |
| 4 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kick | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kick | aux |
| 6 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scratch | cc |
| 8 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kick | conj |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 scratch | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swoop | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swoop | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 magpies | case |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 magpies | compound |
| 14 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 swoop | nsubj |
| 15 | swoop | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kick | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 guard | mark |
| 17 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 swoop | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nests | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 guard | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 cover | punct |
| 21 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 guard | advcl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cover | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walk | punct |
| 25 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cover | conj |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 walk | advmod |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 walk | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 area | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 area | det |
| 30 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 area | compound |
| 31 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 away | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 get | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 get | cc |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cover | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 get | compound:prt |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 walk | cc |
| 37 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 get | conj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 bike | nmod:poss |
| 39 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 walk | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | kangaroos | Australia | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scratch | infinitive | kangaroos not said here | hard property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swoop | present | spring magpies | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | guard | to-infinitive | spring magpies not said here | magpies's nests | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | cover | infinitive | spring magpies not said here | your head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | ||||
| 6 | walk | infinitive | spring magpies not said here | away, quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get off | infinitive | spring magpies not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | walk | infinitive | spring magpies not said here | your bike | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bike=Trajectory |
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:4.
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): 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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