Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 6

He gently moves a few back onto the grass, because worms that stay on the hard path can dry out and die.

Who acts: boy, worms · What happens: move, stay, dry out, die · To what, where: few, hard path

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 (boy, worms), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 moves	nsubj
2	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 moves	advmod
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 few	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moves	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 moves	advmod
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moves	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 dry	mark
12	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dry	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 stay	nsubj
14	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 worms	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 path	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 path	det
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 path	amod
18	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stay	obl
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 dry	aux
20	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 moves	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 dry	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 die	cc
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dry	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moves	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	present	boy	a few		gently property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent few=Theme
2	stay	present	worms		the hard path		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location
3	dry out	can	worms				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	die	infinitive	worms not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:6.

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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