Thinking like an animal, sentence 21
A trapped or cornered animal is much more likely to bite or scratch.
Who acts: trapped animal · What happens: trap, corner, be, bite, scratch
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 (trapped animal), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 animal | det |
| 2 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 animal | amod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 cornered | cc |
| 4 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 trapped | conj |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 likely | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 likely | cop |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 likely | advmod |
| 9 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bite | mark |
| 11 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 likely | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 scratch | cc |
| 13 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bite | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | corner | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | a trapped animal | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bite | to-infinitive | a trapped animal not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | scratch | infinitive | a trapped animal not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:21.
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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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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