Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 34
Goats try to chew almost anything, and you should wash your hands after touching any farm animal.
Who acts: Goats, you · What happens: try, chew, wash, touch · To what, where: anything, hands, farm animal
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 (Goats, you), 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 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 try | nsubj |
| 2 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 chew | mark |
| 4 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 try | xcomp |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 anything | advmod |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 chew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wash | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wash | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wash | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wash | aux |
| 11 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 try | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wash | obj |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 touching | mark |
| 15 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wash | advcl |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 animal | det |
| 17 | farm | farm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animal | amod |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touching | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 try | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Goats | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | chew not said to happen | to-infinitive | Goats not said here | anything | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wash | should | you | your hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | touch | gerund | you not said here | any farm animal | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Co-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:34.
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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