Respecting wild animals, sentence 0
Wild animals live their own lives, and the best way to love them is to watch quietly from a distance and leave their homes as you found them.
Who acts: Wild animals, best way, you · What happens: live, love, be, leave, find · To what, where: own lives, lives, homes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» 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 (Wild animals, best way, 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lives | amod |
| 6 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 watch | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 watch | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watch | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 love | mark |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 way | acl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 watch | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 watch | mark |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 18 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 17 watch | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 distance | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 distance | det |
| 21 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watch | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leave | cc |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 watch | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 homes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leave | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 leave | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Wild animals | animals's own lives | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 2 | love | to-infinitive | the best way not said here | lives = life | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the best way | from a distance; quietly, watch property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | the best way not said here | animals's homes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | you | homes = home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:0.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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