Thinking like an animal, sentence 8
Hunting animals have a strong instinct to chase things that run away.
Who acts: Hunting animals, things · What happens: hunt, have, chase, run away · To what, where: strong instinct, things
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 (Hunting animals, things), 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 | Hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 animals | compound |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 instinct | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 instinct | amod |
| 6 | instinct | instinct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 chase | mark |
| 8 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 instinct | acl |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chase | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 run | nsubj |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | Hunting animals | a strong instinct | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instinct=Patient | ||||
| 3 | chase | to-infinitive | Hunting animals not said here | things | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run away | present | things | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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): 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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