Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 17

If a rooster chases you, walk away calmly and tell its owner; some roosters attack to protect their hens.

Who acts: rooster, roosters · What happens: chase, walk away, tell, attack, protect · To what, where: you, owner, hens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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 (rooster, roosters), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 chases	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rooster	det
3	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chases	nsubj
4	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 chases	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 chases	parataxis
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
9	calmly	calmly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 walk	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 walk	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 owner	nmod:poss
13	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 attack	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 roosters	det
16	roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attack	nsubj
17	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chases	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 protect	mark
19	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 attack	advcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hens	nmod:poss
21	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 protect	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chases	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	chase	present	a rooster	you			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	walk away	infinitive				away, calmly property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive		sun.'s owner			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
4	attack	present	some roosters				vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	protect	to-infinitive	some roosters not said here		animals's hens		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary

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:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.lesson:17.

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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