Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 20
Squirrels and other wild animals can bite fingers, so you watch them but do not feed them from your hand.
Who acts: Squirrels, you · What happens: bite, watch, not feed · To what, where: fingers, animals, hand
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 (Squirrels, 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 | Squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 animals | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Squirrels | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bite | aux |
| 7 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bite | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 watch | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 watch | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 watch | nsubj |
| 12 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bite | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 watch | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 feed | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 feed | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 feed | advmod |
| 17 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 watch | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feed | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bite | 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 | bite | can | Squirrels and other wild animals | fingers | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | you | animals = animal | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not feed | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | animals = animal | your hand | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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:20.
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, 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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