Respecting wild animals, sentence 22
A girl in Florida held out a sandwich to a goose by a lake; the goose bit her hand hard and flapped at her, and she fell backwards onto the path and cut her head.
Who acts: girl, goose · What happens: hold out, bite, flap, fall, cut · To what, where: sandwich, hand, path, head
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 (girl, goose), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sandwich | det |
| 8 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 goose | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 goose | det |
| 11 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 hand | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goose | det |
| 17 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | nsubj |
| 18 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bit | obj |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 bit | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flapped | cc |
| 23 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bit | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flapped | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fell | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fell | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bit | conj |
| 30 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 29 fell | advmod |
| 31 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 33 path | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 path | det |
| 33 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cut | cc |
| 35 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fell | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cut | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | a girl in Florida | a sandwich | to a goose; by a lake | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme by lake=Location | |||
| 2 | bite | past | the goose | goose's hand | hard property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | flap | past | the goose not said here | at goose | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | girl | the path | backward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto path=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | cut | past | girl not said here | goose's head | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product |
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:22.
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 ×3. 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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