Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 9
Backyard chickens (called chooks in Australia) are shut in at night because foxes and other predators attack in the dark.
Who acts: Backyard chickens, foxes · What happens: call, shut in, attack · To what, where: chooks, Australia, Backyard chickens, dark · 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 (Backyard chickens, foxes), 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 | 10 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chickens | acl |
| 5 | chooks | chook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Australia | case |
| 7 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shut | aux:pass |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 shut | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | obl |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 attack | mark |
| 15 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 attack | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 predators | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 predators | amod |
| 18 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 foxes | conj |
| 19 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shut | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 dark | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dark | det |
| 22 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attack | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Backyard chickens not said here | chooks | Australia | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shut in | present · passive | Backyard chickens | night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | attack | present | foxes and other predators | the dark | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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