Thinking like an animal, sentence 13
Most birds will not abandon a chick because a person has touched it.
Who acts: Most birds, person · What happens: not abandon, touch · To what, where: chick, bird
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 (Most birds, person), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 birds | amod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 abandon | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 abandon | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 abandon | advmod |
| 5 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chick | det |
| 7 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 abandon | obj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 touched | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 touched | aux |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 abandon | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touched | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 abandon | 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 abandon | future | Most birds | a chick | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source | ||||
| 2 | touch | present · perfect | a person | bird | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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