Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 23
Backyard chickens and ducks often carry Salmonella, even when they look clean and healthy.
Who acts: Backyard chickens, chickens · What happens: carry, look · To what, where: Salmonella
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 (Backyard chickens, chickens), 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 | Backyard | backyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chickens | compound |
| 2 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ducks | cc |
| 4 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chickens | conj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 carry | advmod |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Salmonella | Salmonella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | advcl |
| 13 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 look | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 healthy | cc |
| 15 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clean | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Backyard chickens and ducks | Salmonella | often property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmonella=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | present | chickens = chicken | clean property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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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