Farm animals and horses, sentence 7
Never walk behind a horse, because it may kick if surprised.
Who acts: you, horse · What happens: not walk, kick
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 (you, horse), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 walk | advmod |
| 2 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walk | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kick | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 kick | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kick | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 kick | aux |
| 10 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 walk | advcl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 surprised | mark |
| 12 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kick | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk | imperative | you not said here | behind a horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | kick | may | horse | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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: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): 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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