Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 0
Every animal, big or small, has its own way of life, and a kind person learns it: chickens need to be shut in safe at night, goats explore with their mouths, and insects have fragile bodies that are easily hurt.
Who acts: animal, kind person, chickens, goats, insects · What happens: have, learn, need, shut, explore, hurt · To what, where: own way, way, safe, fragile bodies
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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 (animal, kind person, chickens, goats), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 big | punct |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animal | amod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 small | cc |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 big | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 animal | punct |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learns | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learns | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 17 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learns | nsubj |
| 19 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 learns | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 need | punct |
| 22 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 need | nsubj |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 shut | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 shut | aux:pass |
| 26 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 need | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 safe | case |
| 28 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shut | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 night | case |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shut | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 explore | punct |
| 32 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 explore | nsubj |
| 33 | explore | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 mouths | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 explore | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 have | cc |
| 39 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 have | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | conj |
| 41 | fragile | fragile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bodies | amod |
| 42 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 have | obj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 hurt | aux:pass |
| 45 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 46 hurt | advmod |
| 46 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 bodies | acl:relcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every animal | animal's own way of life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | learn | present | a kind person | way | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | need | present | chickens | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shut not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | chickens not said here | safe | night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||
| 5 | explore | present | goats | with goats's mouths | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | present | insects | fragile bodies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 7 | hurt | present · passive | fragile bodies | easily property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:0.
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 ×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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