Respecting wild animals, sentence 19
Feeding gulls teaches them to grab food from people.
Who acts: Feeding · What happens: feed, teach, grab · To what, where: gulls, food · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Feeding), 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 | Feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 teaches | csubj |
| 2 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Feeding | obj |
| 3 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 teaches | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 grab | mark |
| 6 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 teaches | xcomp |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grab | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grab | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 teaches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | gerund | gulls | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gull=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | Feeding | gulls = gull | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grab | to-infinitive | Feeding not said here | food | from people | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from people=Source |
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: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): 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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