Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 28

To pass a swooping bird, take another path for a few weeks, wear a hat, and never wave sticks or throw stones.

Who acts: you · What happens: pass, swoop, take, wear, not wave, throw · To what, where: swooping bird, path, hat, sticks, stones

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 (you), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 pass	mark
2	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pass	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 weeks	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weeks	amod
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wear	punct
15	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 take	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hat	det
17	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wear	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wave	cc
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 wave	advmod
21	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 take	conj
22	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wave	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 throw	cc
24	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 wave	conj
25	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 throw	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive	you not said here	a swooping bird		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Trajectory
2	swoop	gerund				tree rules
3	take	imperative	you not said here	another path	week	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
4	wear	infinitive	you not said here	a hat		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
5	not wave	infinitive	you not said here	sticks		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
6	throw	infinitive	you not said here	stones		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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:28.

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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