Thinking like an animal, sentence 11
Prey animals escape danger by running, kicking or hiding.
Who acts: Prey animals · What happens: escape, run, kick, hide · To what, where: danger
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 (Prey animals), 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 | Prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 animals | compound |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 escape | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 running | mark |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 escape | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kicking | punct |
| 8 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 running | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hiding | cc |
| 10 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 running | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escape | 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 | escape | present | Prey animals | danger | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | Prey animals not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kick | gerund | Prey animals not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hide | gerund | Prey animals not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: 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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:11.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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