Being gentle with small animals, sentence 4
Example: a girl in Auckland wants to hold her friend's guinea pig.
Who acts: girl · What happens: want, hold · To what, where: guinea pig
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 (girl), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 wants | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wants | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Auckland | case |
| 6 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hold | mark |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wants | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pig | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 13 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pig | compound |
| 14 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a girl in Auckland | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl in Auckland not said here | girl's friend's guinea pig | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=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:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:4.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/4/