Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 16

Many lizards can drop their tail to escape, so you never hold a lizard by its tail.

Who acts: Many lizards, you · What happens: drop, escape, not hold · To what, where: tail, lizard

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (Many lizards, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lizards	amod
2	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drop	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drop	aux
4	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 escape	mark
8	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drop	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 hold	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hold	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 hold	advmod
13	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 escape	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lizard	det
15	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 tail	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drop	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	can	Many lizards	lizards's tail		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	escape	to-infinitive	Many lizards not said here			tree rules
3	not hold	infinitive	you	a lizard	by tail's tail	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lizard=Theme by tail=Location

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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:16.

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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