Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 33
Some farm animals, like cockerels and geese, guard their patch; stay calm, keep something between you and let an adult deal with them.
Who acts: adult · What happens: guard, stay, keep, let, deal · To what, where: patch, something
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 (adult), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 animals | det |
| 2 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animals | compound |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cockerels | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 cockerels | case |
| 6 | cockerels | cockerel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 animals | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 geese | cc |
| 8 | geese | geese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cockerels | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 guard | punct |
| 10 | guard | guard | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 animals | parataxis |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 patch | nmod:poss |
| 12 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guard | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stay | punct |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 guard | parataxis |
| 15 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stay | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | conj |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 keep | obj |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 adult | det |
| 24 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deal | nsubj |
| 25 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deal | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 guard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | infinitive | animals's patch | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | something | between you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme between you=Location | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | deal | infinitive | a adult | with animals = animal | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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:33.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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