Farm animals and horses, sentence 9
Approach a horse from the side, near its shoulder, and talk softly as you come.
Who acts: you · What happens: approach, talk, come · To what, where: horse, side
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), 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 | Approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Approach | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Approach | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shoulder | punct |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 shoulder | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Approach | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 talk | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 talk | cc |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Approach | conj |
| 14 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 13 talk | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 talk | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Approach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | imperative | you not said here | a horse | the side | near horse's shoulder | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||
| 2 | talk | infinitive | you not said here | softly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): R8-pos-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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