Being gentle with small animals, sentence 21
Small animals can be badly hurt or killed by a fall from the height of a standing child.
What happens: hurt, kill · To what, where: Small animals
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: 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 killed | cc |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hurt | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 fall | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fall | det |
| 11 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 height | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 height | det |
| 14 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fall | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 17 | standing | standing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 height | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can · passive | Small animals | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill | participle | by a fall from the height of a standing child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:21.
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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