Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 9
On the canal a swan rears up at Sam's dog, its wings booming like a door slamming; Sam's dad says a swan guarding cygnets (baby swans) can hurt a small dog badly.
Who acts: swan, wings, dad · What happens: rear up, boom, slam, say, guard, hurt · To what, where: canal, cygnets, small dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (swan, wings, dad), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 canal | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 canal | det |
| 3 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rears | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swan | det |
| 5 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rears | nsubj |
| 6 | rears | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 rears | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dog | case |
| 9 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Sam | case |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rears | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wings | punct |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 booming | nsubj |
| 15 | booming | boom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 rears | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 booming | obl |
| 19 | slamming | slam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 booming | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 says | punct |
| 21 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dad | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Sam | case |
| 23 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 says | nsubj |
| 24 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rears | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 swan | det |
| 26 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hurt | nsubj |
| 27 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 swan | acl |
| 28 | cygnets | cygnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 guarding | obj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 swans | punct |
| 30 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 swans | compound |
| 31 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cygnets | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 swans | punct |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hurt | aux |
| 34 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 says | ccomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 dog | det |
| 36 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dog | amod |
| 37 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hurt | obj |
| 38 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 hurt | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rears | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear up | present | a swan | the canal | at Sam's dog | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | boom | gerund | swan's wings | like a door | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | slam | gerund | swan's wings not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Sam's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | guard | gerund | a swan not said here | cygnets | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cygnet=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | hurt | can | a swan | a small dog | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Patient |
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:9.
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 ×2, 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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