Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 12
Some roosters protect their hens by attacking, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner.
Who acts: roosters, you · What happens: protect, attack, walk away, tell · To what, where: hens, owner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (roosters, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 roosters | det |
| 2 | roosters | rooster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hens | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 protect | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 attacking | mark |
| 7 | attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 protect | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walk | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 walk | nsubj |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 protect | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 13 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 walk | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 owner | det |
| 17 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | some roosters | roosters's hens | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | attack | gerund | some roosters not said here | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk away | present | you | away, calmly property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the owner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |
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:12.
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): R7-rel-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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