Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 16
At the seaside a gull snatches a chip out of Chloe's hand.
Who acts: gull · What happens: snatch · To what, where: chip, seaside
This is a sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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 (gull), 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 seaside | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seaside | det |
| 3 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snatches | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gull | det |
| 5 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snatches | nsubj |
| 6 | snatches | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chip | det |
| 8 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snatches | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Chloe | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chip | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 snatches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | present | a gull | a chip | the seaside | out Chloe's hand | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chip=Theme out hand=Source |
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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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): 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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