Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 18
At the zoo, follow the signs, stay behind the barriers and never climb fences, because zoo animals are wild and can be dangerous; if you drop something into an enclosure, tell a zoo keeper.
Who acts: you, zoo animals · What happens: follow, stay, not climb, be, drop, tell · To what, where: signs, zoo, barriers, fences, something, enclosure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» 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, zoo 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 zoo | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 zoo | det |
| 3 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 zoo | punct |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 signs | det |
| 7 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | conj |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 barriers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 barriers | det |
| 12 | barriers | barrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stay | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 climb | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 climb | advmod |
| 15 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | conj |
| 16 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 climb | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wild | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 wild | mark |
| 19 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 animals | compound |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wild | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wild | cop |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 climb | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dangerous | cc |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 dangerous | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dangerous | cop |
| 26 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wild | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 drop | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 drop | nsubj |
| 30 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 tell | advcl |
| 31 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 drop | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 enclosure | case |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 enclosure | det |
| 34 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drop | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 drop | punct |
| 36 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 keeper | det |
| 38 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 keeper | compound |
| 39 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tell | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | the signs | the zoo | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sign=Theme at zoo=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | the barriers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind barrier=Location | ||||
| 3 | not climb | infinitive | you not said here | fences | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | zoo animals | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | can | zoo animals not said here | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drop a condition, not said to happen | present | you | something | a enclosure | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme into enclosure=Destination | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a zoo keeper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient |
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:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:18.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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