Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 24
Goats can butt hard enough to knock a child over; a goat that lowers its head may be about to butt, so you move away calmly and never turn your back on it.
Who acts: Goats, goat, you · What happens: butt, knock over, lower, be, move away, not turn · To what, where: child, head, back, half
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, goat, 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 | 3 butt | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 butt | aux |
| 3 | butt | butt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 butt | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 knock | mark |
| 7 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 butt | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knock | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 knock | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lowers | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 goat | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 about | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lowers | nsubj |
| 15 | lowers | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 goat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lowers | obj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 about | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 about | cop |
| 20 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 butt | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 butt | mark |
| 22 | butt | butt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 about | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 move | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 move | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 move | nsubj |
| 26 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 butt | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 move | advmod |
| 28 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 26 move | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 turn | cc |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 turn | advmod |
| 31 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 move | conj |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 back | nmod:poss |
| 33 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turn | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 turn | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 butt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | butt | can | Goats | hard property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knock over | to-infinitive | Goats not said here | a child | over property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 3 | lower | present | a goat | half's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | may | a goat | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | butt | to-infinitive | a goat not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | move away | present | you | away, calmly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not turn | present | you not said here | your back | half | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
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:24.
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): R8-pos-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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