Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 9
A mother animal protecting her babies is especially dangerous.
Who acts: mother animal · What happens: protect, be · To what, where: babies
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 (mother animal), 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 | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animal | compound |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dangerous | nsubj |
| 4 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 animal | acl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 babies | nmod:poss |
| 6 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 protecting | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dangerous | cop |
| 8 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 dangerous | advmod |
| 9 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | gerund | a mother animal not said here | alligator's babies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a mother animal | dangerous, especially 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:9.
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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