Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 32
Banging on zoo glass frightens animals and can make them throw things or hurt themselves.
Who acts: Banging, animals · What happens: bang, frighten, make, throw, hurt · To what, where: zoo glass, animals, things
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 (Banging, animals), 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 | Banging | bang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 frightens | csubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 glass | case |
| 3 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glass | compound |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Banging | obl |
| 5 | frightens | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 frightens | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightens | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 throw | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurt | cc |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 throw | conj |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 hurt | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bang | gerund | zoo glass | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on glass=Location | |||||
| 2 | frighten | present | Banging | animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | can | Banging not said here | animals = animal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | throw | infinitive | animals = animal not said here | things | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hurt | infinitive | animals = animal not said here | things = thing | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient |
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:32.
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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