Being gentle with small animals, sentence 14
Hold a small animal with both hands, supporting its body from underneath.
Who acts: you · What happens: hold, support · To what, where: small animal, body
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small 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 (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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animal | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hands | det |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hold | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 supporting | punct |
| 9 | supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Hold | advcl |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 supporting | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 underneath | case |
| 13 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 9 supporting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | a small animal | with both hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 2 | support | gerund | you not said here | pig's body | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus |
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:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:14.
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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