Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 6

Nature is lovely to look at but not always to touch: lambs in spring fields, blackberries on a hedge, cacti in the desert and fire ant nests all need care.

Who acts: Nature, lambs · What happens: be, look, not touch, need · To what, where: care

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 (Nature, lambs), 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	Nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lovely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lovely	cop
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lovely	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	5 look	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 touch	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 touch	advmod
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 touch	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 touch	mark
11	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lovely	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 lambs	punct
13	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 need	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 fields	case
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fields	compound
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lambs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blackberries	punct
18	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lambs	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 hedge	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hedge	det
21	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blackberries	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cacti	punct
23	cacti	cactus	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lambs	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 desert	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 desert	det
26	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cacti	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fire	cc
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 desert	conj
29	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nests	compound
30	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 desert	nmod
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 need	advmod
32	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lovely	parataxis
33	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 need	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lovely	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nature		lovely property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	Nature not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not touch	to-infinitive	Nature not said here		always property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	present	lambs in spring fields and blackberries on a hedge and cacti in the desert ant nests and fire	care		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:6.

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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