Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 20
A dog off its lead in Wales chased a field of lambs; several were hurt, and the farmer was allowed by law to stop the dog.
Who acts: dog, law, farmer · What happens: chase, hurt, allow, stop · To what, where: field, several, farmer, dog
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, 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 (dog, law, farmer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chased | nsubj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 lead | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lead | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Wales | case |
| 7 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lead | nmod |
| 8 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chased | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lambs | case |
| 12 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 field | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurt | punct |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurt | aux:pass |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chased | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 allowed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 allowed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 farmer | det |
| 20 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 allowed | aux:pass |
| 22 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chased | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 allowed | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 stop | mark |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 allowed | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dog | det |
| 28 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stop | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | a dog off picnic's lead in Wales | a field of lambs | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurt | past · passive | several | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | allow | past · passive | law | the farmer | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the farmer not said here | the dog | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dog=Eventuality |
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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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