Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 36
Crabs and other rock-pool creatures pinch to defend themselves; look and let them be.
Who acts: Crabs, animals · What happens: pinch, defend, look, let, be · To what, where: animals
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 (Crabs, 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 | Crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pinch | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 creatures | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creatures | amod |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pool | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 rock | punct |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creatures | compound |
| 7 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Crabs | conj |
| 8 | pinch | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 defend | mark |
| 10 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pinch | advcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 defend | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pinch | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 look | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pinch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | present | Crabs and other pool creatures | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | defend | to-infinitive | Crabs and other pool creatures not said here | animals = animal | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | animals = animal | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:36.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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