Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 4
By June, when the chicks have flown, it couldn't care less about her.
Who acts: chicks, magpie · What happens: fly, not care
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 (chicks, magpie), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 care | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flown | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 flown | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chicks | det |
| 6 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flown | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flown | aux |
| 8 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 care | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 care | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 care | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 care | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 care | advmod |
| 13 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 care | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 less | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 care | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present · perfect | the chicks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not care | could | magpie | june | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:4.
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): R7-rel-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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