Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 16
Look at cacti but do not touch them; their spines go into skin and are hard to get out.
Who acts: you, spines · What happens: look, not touch, go, be, get out · To what, where: bushes, skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (you, spines), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 cacti | case |
| 3 | cacti | cactus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 touch | cc |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 touch | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 touch | advmod |
| 7 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touch | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spines | nmod:poss |
| 11 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hard | cc |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hard | cop |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 go | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hard | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 get | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at cacti | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cactus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not touch | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | bushes = bush | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present | bushes's spines | skin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into skin=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | bushes's spines not said here | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get out | to-infinitive | bushes's spines not said here | vn withdraw-82-1 «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:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:16.
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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