The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 26
Never poke your fingers into a bird's cage: a parrot's beak can bite badly.
Who acts: you, beak · What happens: not poke, bite · To what, where: fingers
This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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, beak), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 poke | advmod |
| 2 | poke | poke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 poke | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 cage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 bird | case |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poke | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 bite | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 parrot | det |
| 12 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beak | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 parrot | case |
| 14 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bite | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bite | aux |
| 16 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 poke | parataxis |
| 17 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 bite | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 poke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not poke | imperative | you not said here | your fingers | into a bird's cage | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Instrument into cage=Patient | |||
| 2 | bite | can | a parrot's beak | badly property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:26.
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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