Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 16
Every small creature has a job in nature, and hurting them for fun is unkind.
Who acts: small creature, hurting · What happens: have, hurt, be · To what, where: job, nature, creatures
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 (small creature, hurting), 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 | 3 creature | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creature | amod |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 job | det |
| 6 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 nature | case |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 job | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unkind | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unkind | cc |
| 11 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 unkind | csubj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hurting | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fun | case |
| 14 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurting | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 unkind | cop |
| 16 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 has | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 small creature | a job | nature | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | |||
| 2 | hurt | gerund | creatures = creature | for fun | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | hurting | unkind property | tree rules |
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: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): 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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