Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 30

If you are allowed to feed a horse or pony, keep your hand flat with your fingers together; read and obey signs that say not to.

Who acts: you, signs · What happens: allow, feed, keep, read, obey, say · To what, where: you, horse, hand, signs · Speech: someone speaks here

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, signs), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 allowed	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 keep	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feed	mark
6	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feed	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 pony	cc
10	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 allowed	punct
12	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	obj
15	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 fingers	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fingers	nmod:poss
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flat	obl
19	together	together	ADV	_	12 keep	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 read	punct
21	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 keep	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 obey	cc
23	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 read	conj
24	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 obey	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 signs	acl:relcl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 say	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	27 not	fixed
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	allow a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		you			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		a horse or pony		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient
3	keep	imperative	you not said here	your hand		flat, together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	read	infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	obey	infinitive		signs			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	signs				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:30.

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): R7-rel-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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