Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 19

Rabies is a deadly illness that wild animals can pass on by biting; a wild animal that walks up to people and seems tame may be sick with it.

Who acts: Rabies, wild animals, wild animal · What happens: be, pass on, bite, walk up, seem · To what, where: deadly illness

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 (Rabies, wild animals, wild animal), 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	Rabies	rabies	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 illness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 illness	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 illness	det
4	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 illness	amod
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pass	obj
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pass	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pass	aux
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 illness	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 pass	compound:prt
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 biting	mark
13	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 pass	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 animal	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 animal	det
16	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animal	amod
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 illness	appos
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 walks	nsubj
19	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 animal	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 walks	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walks	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seems	cc
24	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 walks	conj
25	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seems	xcomp
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sick	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 sick	cop
28	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seems	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sick	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 illness	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rabies	a deadly illness		tree rules
2	pass on	can	wild animals	a deadly illness		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	bite	gerund	wild animals not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	walk up	present	a wild animal		to people result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to people=Result
5	seem	present	a wild animal not said here		tame property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	may	a wild animal not said here		with illness; sick 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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:19.

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): R5-strong ×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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