Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 7

A boy in Florida went close to a pond's edge to look at a small alligator; a bigger one lunged out of the water, and he only just jumped back in time.

Who acts: boy, bigger one · What happens: go, look, lunge, jump back · To what, where: water

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 (boy, bigger one), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 close	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 edge	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 pond	case
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 alligator	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 alligator	det
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 alligator	amod
17	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lunged	nsubj
22	lunged	lunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 water	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lunged	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 jumped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 jumped	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 jumped	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	32 jumped	advmod
31	just	just	ADV	_	32 jumped	advmod
32	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lunged	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 jumped	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 time	case
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jumped	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a boy in Florida			close property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	a boy in Florida not said here			at a small alligator	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alligator=Theme
3	lunge	past	a bigger one	the water			tree rules
4	jump back	past	boy		time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:7.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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