Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 23
At the rock pool Jake grabs a crab to show off; it clamps his thumb until his sister dips his hand back in the water.
Who acts: Jake, crab, sister · What happens: grab, show off, clamp, dip · To what, where: crab, rock pool, thumb, hand
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 (Jake, crab, sister), 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 | _ | 4 pool | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pool | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pool | compound |
| 4 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grabs | obl |
| 5 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grabs | nsubj |
| 6 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 clamps | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crab | det |
| 8 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grabs | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 show | mark |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grabs | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 show | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 clamps | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clamps | nsubj |
| 14 | clamps | clamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 16 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clamps | obj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 dips | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dips | nsubj |
| 20 | dips | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 clamps | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dips | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 dips | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grabs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | Jake | a crab | the rock pool | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Theme | |||
| 2 | show off | to-infinitive | Jake not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clamp | present | crab | Jake's thumb | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient | ||||
| 4 | dip | present | Jake's sister | Jake's hand | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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:23.
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): R6-punct-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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