Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 18
At the zoo Kieran bangs on the monkey glass, and a monkey chucks something disgusting at it; a keeper asks him to stop and he goes bright red.
Who acts: Kieran, monkey, keeper · What happens: bang, chuck, ask, stop, go · To what, where: zoo, something, monkey
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 (Kieran, monkey, keeper), 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 bangs | obl |
| 4 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bangs | nsubj |
| 5 | bangs | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 glass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 glass | det |
| 8 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glass | compound |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bangs | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chucks | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chucks | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 monkey | det |
| 13 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chucks | nsubj |
| 14 | chucks | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bangs | conj |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 chucks | obj |
| 16 | disgusting | disgusting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 something | amod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 disgusting | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 asks | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 keeper | det |
| 21 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asks | nsubj |
| 22 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 chucks | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asks | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stop | mark |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asks | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 goes | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 goes | nsubj |
| 28 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 asks | conj |
| 29 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 goes | xcomp |
| 30 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 goes | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bangs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bang | present | Kieran | the zoo | on the monkey glass | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at zoo=Location | |||
| 2 | chuck | present | a monkey | something | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | a keeper | monkey | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | a keeper not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go | present | keeper | bright, red property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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