Thinking like an animal, sentence 19
An animal woken by a sudden touch may snap in fright before it knows who you are.
Who acts: animal, fright, you · What happens: wake, snap, know, be · To what, where: animal, fright · Speech: someone speaks here
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, fright, you), 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 | 9 snap | nsubj |
| 3 | woken | wake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 animal | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 touch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 touch | det |
| 6 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 touch | amod |
| 7 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woken | obl:agent |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 snap | aux |
| 9 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fright | case |
| 11 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snap | obl |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 knows | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knows | nsubj |
| 14 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 snap | advcl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 knows | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 who | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 who | cop |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 snap | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | participle | a animal not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | snap | may | a animal | fright | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | present | fright | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | tree rules |
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:19.
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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