Farm animals and horses, sentence 6
A girl in Kentucky walked right behind a horse without speaking; it was startled, kicked out and bruised her leg badly.
Who acts: girl · What happens: walk, speak, startle, kick out, bruise · To what, where: horse, leg · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Kentucky | case |
| 4 | Kentucky | Kentucky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 behind | advmod |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 speaking | mark |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 walked | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 speaking | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 startled | aux:pass |
| 15 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 walked | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kicked | punct |
| 17 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 startled | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 kicked | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bruised | cc |
| 20 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 kicked | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 leg | nmod:poss |
| 22 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bruised | obj |
| 23 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 bruised | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | a girl in Kentucky | behind a horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | a girl in Kentucky not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | startle | past · passive | horse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | kick out | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | bruise | past | girl's leg | badly property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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