Thinking like an animal, sentence 15
Young animals that seem to be alone, such as fledglings or bear cubs, usually have a parent close by.
Who acts: Young animals · What happens: seem, be, have · To what, where: parent
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 (Young 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 animals | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 alone | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 alone | cop |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fledglings | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 fledglings | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 animals | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 cubs | cc |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cubs | compound |
| 14 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fledglings | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fledglings | punct |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 17 have | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 parent | det |
| 19 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 parent | amod |
| 21 | by | by | ADV | _ | 20 close | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | 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 | seem | present | Young animals such fledglings or bear cubs | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Young animals such fledglings or bear cubs not said here | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Young animals such fledglings or bear cubs | a parent | usually property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient |
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:15.
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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