Being gentle with small animals, sentence 5
She sits on the floor, waits quietly, lets it sniff her hand and lifts it gently with two hands, one under its bottom, while her friend watches.
Who acts: girl, floor, friend · What happens: sit, wait, let, sniff, lift, watch · To what, where: floor, hand
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, floor, friend), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waits | punct |
| 7 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | conj |
| 8 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 waits | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lets | punct |
| 10 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sniff | nsubj |
| 12 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lets | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sniff | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lifts | cc |
| 16 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lifts | obj |
| 18 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 16 lifts | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hands | nummod |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lifts | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 watches | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hands | appos |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 bottom | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bottom | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 watches | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 watches | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 friend | nmod:poss |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 watches | nsubj |
| 31 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lifts | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | 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 | sit | present | girl | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | ||||
| 2 | wait | present | girl not said here | quietly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | present | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sniff | infinitive | floor | girl's hand | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lift | present | girl not said here | floor | with two hands; gently property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | watch | present | girl's friend | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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, R5-strong ×3, 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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