Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 6
At the park pond Jake tries to feed the geese.
Who acts: Jake · What happens: try, feed · To what, where: park pond, geese
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 (Jake), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 pond | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pond | det |
| 3 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pond | compound |
| 4 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tries | obl |
| 5 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tries | nsubj |
| 6 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 feed | mark |
| 8 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tries | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 geese | det |
| 10 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tries | 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 | Jake | the park pond | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feed not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jake not said here | the geese | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Recipient |
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:6.
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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