Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 29
Geese and swans can be fierce near their young; back away calmly and keep dogs on a lead near water.
Who acts: Geese · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: young, dogs, lead
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 (Geese), 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 | Geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fierce | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 swans | cc |
| 3 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Geese | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fierce | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fierce | cop |
| 6 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 young | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 young | nmod:poss |
| 9 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fierce | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 calmly | punct |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 13 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 fierce | conj |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 lead | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lead | det |
| 19 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fierce | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Geese and swans | geese's young | fierce property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | Geese and swans not said here | dogs | a lead | near water; away, calmly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location |
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:29.
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): R8-pos-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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