Thinking like an animal, sentence 20
Many animals guard their territory, such as a dog behind its own fence or gate.
Who acts: Many animals · What happens: guard · To what, where: territory
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 (Many 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 guard | nsubj |
| 3 | guard | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 territory | nmod:poss |
| 5 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dog | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 dog | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 territory | conj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 fence | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fence | amod |
| 14 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dog | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 gate | cc |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fence | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | present | Many animals | Animals's territory and a dog behind fright's own fence or gate | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Beneficiary |
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:20.
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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