Farm animals and horses, sentence 5

Walkers in England crossed a field with cows and their calves while their dog ran ahead; the cows charged and knocked one of the walkers down, injuring him.

Who acts: Walkers, dog, cows · What happens: cross, run, charge, knock down, injure · To what, where: field, one, dog

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 (Walkers, dog, cows), 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	Walkers	walker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crossed	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 England	case
3	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Walkers	nmod
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 cows	case
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 field	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 calves	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 calves	nmod:poss
11	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cows	conj
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 ran	mark
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dog	nmod:poss
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	advcl
16	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 charged	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cows	det
19	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 charged	nsubj
20	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knocked	cc
22	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 charged	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 knocked	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 walkers	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 walkers	det
26	walkers	walker	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
27	down	down	ADV	_	22 knocked	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 injuring	punct
29	injuring	injure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 knocked	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 injuring	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Walkers in England	a field	with cows and walkers's calves	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
2	run	past	walkers's dog		ahead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	charge	past	the cows			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	knock down	past	the cows not said here	one of the walkers		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	injure	gerund	the cows not said here	dog		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:028-farm-animals-and-horses.lesson:5.

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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