Allergies, horses and farm animals, sentence 23
At a petting farm you hold a chick gently in cupped hands while sitting down, because a fall can hurt it.
Who acts: you, fall · What happens: hold, cup, sit down, hurt · To what, where: chick, petting farm
This is a sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» 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 (you, fall), 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 farm | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farm | det |
| 3 | petting | petting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 farm | compound |
| 4 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chick | det |
| 8 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obj |
| 9 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 6 hold | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | cupped | cup | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hands | amod |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hold | obl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 sitting | mark |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hold | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 sitting | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hurt | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 hurt | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fall | det |
| 19 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hurt | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hurt | aux |
| 21 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hold | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hurt | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | you | a chick | a petting farm | in cupped hands; gently property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chick=Theme at farm=Location | ||
| 2 | cup | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sit down | gerund | you not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hurt | can | a fall | chick | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:23.
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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