Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 27

Magpies can remember human faces, and people who throw things at them often get swooped more.

Who acts: Magpies, people · What happens: remember, throw, swoop · To what, where: human faces, things, people

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 (Magpies, people), 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	Magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 faces	amod
5	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remember	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swooped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swooped	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swooped	nsubj:pass
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 throw	nsubj
10	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 throw	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 throw	obl
14	often	often	ADV	_	16 swooped	advmod
15	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 swooped	aux:pass
16	swooped	swoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 remember	conj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 swooped	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	can	Magpies	human faces		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	throw	present	people	things	at people	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at they=Destination
3	swoop	present · passive		people	often property	tree rules

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:27.

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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