Thinking like an animal, sentence 22
Many animals attack to protect their babies, nest or food, not because they are mean.
Who acts: Many animals, Animals · What happens: attack, protect, not be · To what, where: babies
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, 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 attack | nsubj |
| 3 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 protect | mark |
| 5 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attack | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 babies | nmod:poss |
| 7 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protect | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nest | punct |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 babies | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 food | cc |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nest | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 mean | advmod |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 mean | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mean | cop |
| 17 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attack | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attack | 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 | attack | present | Many animals | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | Many animals not said here | Animals's babies and nest or food | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | Animals = animal | mean property | 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:22.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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