Farm animals and horses, sentence 3
Cows with young calves can be very protective; walkers in fields should keep away from calves, close gates behind them and never walk between a cow and her calf.
Who acts: Cows, walkers · What happens: be, keep away, not walk · To what, where: close gates
This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» 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 (Cows, walkers), 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 | Cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 protective | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 calves | case |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calves | amod |
| 4 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cows | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 protective | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 protective | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 protective | advmod |
| 8 | protective | protective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 10 | walkers | walker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fields | case |
| 12 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walkers | nmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | aux |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 protective | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 keep | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 calves | case |
| 17 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 away | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gates | punct |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gates | amod |
| 20 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 keep | obj |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gates | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walk | cc |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 walk | advmod |
| 25 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | conj |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 cow | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cow | det |
| 28 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walk | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 calf | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 calf | nmod:poss |
| 31 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cow | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 protective | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Cows with young calves | protective property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep away | should | walkers in fields | close gates | behind Cows = cow; away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gate=Theme behind they=Location | |||
| 3 | not walk | infinitive | walkers in fields not said here | between a cow and her calf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between cow=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:028-farm-animals-and-horses.lesson:3.
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 ×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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