Respecting wild animals, sentence 9
Many native New Zealand birds such as the kiwi are endangered, and dogs can kill them, so dogs stay on leads in kiwi areas.
Who acts: Many native Zealand birds, dogs · What happens: be, kill, stay · To what, where: koala, leads
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 (Many native Zealand birds, dogs), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 birds | amod |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 birds | amod |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Zealand | flat |
| 4 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 birds | compound |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 endangered | nsubj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 kiwi | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kiwi | det |
| 9 | kiwi | kiwi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 birds | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 endangered | cop |
| 11 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kill | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kill | cc |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 endangered | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 stay | advmod |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stay | nsubj |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 endangered | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 leads | case |
| 23 | leads | lead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stay | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 areas | case |
| 25 | kiwi | kiwi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 areas | compound |
| 26 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 endangered | 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 | present | Many native Zealand birds such the kiwi | endangered property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | can | dogs | koala | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | dogs | leads | in kiwi areas | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lead=Location |
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:9.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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