Being gentle with small animals, sentence 7
A scared animal may scratch, bite, wriggle free and fall.
Who acts: scared animal · What happens: scratch, bite, wriggle, fall
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 (scared animal), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scratch | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 scratch | aux |
| 5 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bite | punct |
| 7 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scratch | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wriggle | punct |
| 9 | wriggle | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scratch | conj |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wriggle | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fall | cc |
| 12 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scratch | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | may | a scared animal | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bite | infinitive | a scared animal not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wriggle | infinitive | a scared animal not said here | free property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | infinitive | a scared animal not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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): 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.
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