Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 23
Running can make a bear chase you, so you stay with adults, speak calmly and back away slowly.
Who acts: bear, you · What happens: run, make, chase, stay, speak, back away · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bear, 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 | Running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chase | nsubj |
| 6 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 chase | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 stay | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 adults | case |
| 13 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 speak | punct |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | conj |
| 16 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 15 speak | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 back | cc |
| 18 | back | back | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 speak | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 back | advmod |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 back | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | can | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | chase | infinitive | a bear | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stay | present | you | with adults | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | calmly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | back away | infinitive | you not said here | away, slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:23.
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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