Respecting wild animals, sentence 5
A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off its lead can kill one in seconds.
Who acts: kiwi, rare bird, friendly dog · What happens: be, not fly, kill · To what, where: rare bird, one
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 (kiwi, rare bird, friendly dog), 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 kiwi | det |
| 2 | kiwi | kiwi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fly | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fly | advmod |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bird | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kill | cc |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 dog | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 15 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dog | amod |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | nsubj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 lead | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lead | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dog | nmod |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | aux |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bird | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 seconds | case |
| 24 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kill | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | 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 | is a | present | a kiwi | a rare bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fly | can | a rare bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill | can | a friendly dog off kiwi's lead | one | second | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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