Respecting wild animals, sentence 1
Food changes how wild animals behave: bears come to food smells at a campsite, and gulls that are fed learn to snatch food from people, so people store food safely and do not feed them.
Who acts: Food, wild animals, bears, gulls, people · What happens: change, behave, come, feed, learn, snatch · To what, where: campsite, gulls, food, animals
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 (Food, wild animals, bears, gulls), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changes | nsubj |
| 2 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wild | advmod |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 behave | nsubj |
| 6 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 changes | ccomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 8 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 behave | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 smells | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smells | compound |
| 12 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 campsite | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 campsite | det |
| 15 | campsite | campsite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 learn | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 learn | cc |
| 18 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 learn | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fed | aux:pass |
| 21 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gulls | acl:relcl |
| 22 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 behave | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 snatch | mark |
| 24 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 learn | xcomp |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 snatch | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 snatch | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 food | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 store | advmod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 store | nsubj |
| 31 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 learn | parataxis |
| 32 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 store | obj |
| 33 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 31 store | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 feed | cc |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 feed | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 feed | advmod |
| 37 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 store | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 feed | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changes | 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 | change | present | Food | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | behave | present | wild animals | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | bears | a campsite | to food smells | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smell=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | feed | present · passive | gulls | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | learn | infinitive | gulls | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | snatch | to-infinitive | gulls not said here | food | from people | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from people=Source | |||
| 7 | store | present | people | food | safely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 8 | not feed | present · do-support | people not said here | animals = animal | 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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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