Thinking like an animal, sentence 3

Parents of every kind defend their young, which is why a swooping magpie, a mother bear or a cow with a calf is more dangerous than the same animal at another time.

Who acts: Parents, swooping magpie · What happens: defend, be, swoop · To what, where: young

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 (Parents, swooping magpie), 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 defend	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 kind	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Parents	nmod
5	defend	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 young	nmod:poss
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 defend	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dangerous	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 why	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 why	cop
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 dangerous	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 magpie	det
13	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 magpie	amod
14	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dangerous	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bear	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bear	compound
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 magpie	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 cow	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cow	det
21	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 magpie	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 calf	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 calf	det
24	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cow	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dangerous	cop
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 dangerous	advmod
27	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 defend	advcl
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 animal	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 animal	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animal	amod
31	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dangerous	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 animal	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 defend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	defend	present	Parents of every kind	Parents's young		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Beneficiary
2	is	present			why property	tree rules
3	swoop	gerund				tree rules
4	is	present	a swooping magpie and a mother bear or a cow with a calf		than the same animal at another time; dangerous 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:3.

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. 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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