Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 6
Campers in Canada left food in their tent; a bear came in the night to get it, and the park rangers later had to put the bear down because it had learnt to look for food near people.
Who acts: Campers, bear, park rangers, food · What happens: leave, come, get, have, put down, learn · To what, where: food, tent, bear
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 (Campers, bear, park rangers, food), 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 | Campers | camper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Canada | case |
| 3 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Campers | nmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tent | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tent | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bear | det |
| 11 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rangers | det |
| 22 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rangers | compound |
| 23 | rangers | ranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 had | nsubj |
| 24 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 had | advmod |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 put | mark |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 had | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bear | det |
| 29 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 put | compound:prt |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 learnt | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 learnt | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 learnt | aux |
| 34 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 had | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 look | mark |
| 36 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 learnt | xcomp |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 food | case |
| 38 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 look | obl |
| 39 | near | near | ADP | _ | 40 people | case |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 look | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Campers in Canada | food | Campers's tent | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in tent=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | a bear | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | a bear not said here | food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the park rangers | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put down | to-infinitive | the park rangers not said here | the bear | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bear=Goal | ||||
| 6 | learn | past · perfect | food | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | look | to-infinitive | food not said here | for food; near people | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme near people=Location |
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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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