Being gentle with small animals, sentence 16
Never squeeze, chase or pick up a small animal by its tail or ears.
Who acts: you · What happens: not squeeze, chase, pick up · To what, where: small animal
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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 squeeze | advmod |
| 2 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chase | punct |
| 4 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 squeeze | conj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 pick | cc |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 squeeze | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pick | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animal | amod |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pick | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 ears | cc |
| 15 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tail | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 squeeze | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not squeeze | imperative | you not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | chase | infinitive | you not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pick up | infinitive | you not said here | a small animal | by pig's tail or ears | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic |
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:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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