Thinking like an animal, sentence 18
An animal in pain may bite even a person it loves.
Who acts: animal, person · What happens: bite, love · To what, where: person
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 (animal, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 pain | case |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 animal | nmod |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bite | aux |
| 6 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 person | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | obj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loves | nsubj |
| 11 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 person | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | may | a animal in pain | a person | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | present | person | a person not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
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:18.
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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