Thinking like an animal, sentence 0
Animals do not think like people: much of what they do comes from instincts that helped their wild ancestors survive, and if you know the reason behind a behaviour you can predict what an animal will do next.
Who acts: Animals, much, instincts, wild ancestors, you, animal · What happens: not think, do, come, help, survive, know · To what, where: instincts, wild ancestors, reason, behaviour
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (Animals, much, instincts, wild ancestors), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 much | punct |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 much | nmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 instincts | case |
| 15 | instincts | instinct | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 comes | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 helped | nsubj |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 instincts | acl:relcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ancestors | amod |
| 20 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 helped | obj |
| 21 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helped | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 predict | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 predict | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 know | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 predict | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 reason | det |
| 28 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 know | obj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 behaviour | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 behaviour | det |
| 31 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reason | nmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 predict | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 predict | aux |
| 34 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 do | obj |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 animal | det |
| 37 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 do | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 do | aux |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 predict | ccomp |
| 40 | next | next | ADV | _ | 39 do | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | 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 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | Animals | like people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Animals = animal | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | much | instincts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from instinct=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | help | past | instincts | Animals's wild ancestors | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ancestor=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | survive | infinitive | Animals's wild ancestors not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the reason | a behaviour | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | predict | can | you | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | do | future | a animal | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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