Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 11
Goats explore with their mouths and chew almost anything, so you keep loose things out of their reach.
Who acts: Goats, you · What happens: explore, chew, keep · To what, where: anything, loose things, reach
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 (Goats, 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 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 explore | nsubj |
| 2 | explore | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 mouths | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 explore | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chew | cc |
| 7 | chew | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 explore | conj |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 anything | advmod |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 chew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 keep | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 explore | conj |
| 14 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 reach | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 reach | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reach | nmod:poss |
| 19 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explore | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explore | present | Goats | with goats's mouths | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chew | present | Goats not said here | anything | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | you | loose things | goats's reach | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme out reach=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:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:11.
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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