Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 31

Gulls learn that people mean food and will snatch it; don't feed them and eat where they can't grab.

Who acts: Gulls, people · What happens: learn, mean, snatch, not feed, eat, not grab · To what, where: food, people · 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 (Gulls, 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	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 mean	mark
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 learn	ccomp
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 snatch	cc
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 snatch	aux
9	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mean	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 snatch	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 feed	punct
12	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 feed	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 feed	advmod
14	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 snatch	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 feed	conj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 grab	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grab	nsubj
20	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 grab	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 grab	advmod
22	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 eat	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	present	Gulls		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	people	food	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	snatch	future	people not said here	food	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not feed	infinitive · do-support	people not said here	people	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	eat	infinitive	people not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not grab	can	people		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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:31.

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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