Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 7

He stays next to his dad, they talk in calm voices and slowly back away the way they came, giving the bear plenty of room.

Who acts: boy, animals · What happens: stay, talk, back away, come, give · To what, where: calm voices, way, plenty, bear

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 (boy, animals), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 stays	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 dad	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 next	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	nsubj
9	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stays	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 voices	case
11	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voices	amod
12	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talk	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 away	cc
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	15 back	advmod
15	back	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	2 stays	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 back	obl:unmarked
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 way	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 giving	punct
22	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 back	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bear	det
24	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 giving	iobj
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 giving	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 room	case
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plenty	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	present	boy				next property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	present	animals = animal			calm voices		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	back away	present	animals = animal not said here	the way			slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	animals = animal	the way not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	give	gerund	animals = animal not said here	plenty of room	the bear			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient plenty=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:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.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): R5-strong ×6, 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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