Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 1

At a zoo or an aquarium the animals are still wild, so we follow the signs, stay behind the barriers, keep quiet and switch off the camera flash.

Who acts: animals, we · What happens: be, follow, stay, keep, switch off · To what, where: zoo, signs, barriers, camera flash

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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 (animals, we), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 zoo	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 zoo	det
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wild	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 aquarium	cc
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 aquarium	det
6	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 zoo	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wild	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wild	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 wild	advmod
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 follow	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 zoo	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 follow	advmod
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 follow	nsubj
15	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 signs	det
17	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 follow	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stay	punct
19	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 follow	conj
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 barriers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 barriers	det
22	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 keep	punct
24	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 follow	conj
25	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 keep	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 keep	cc
27	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 follow	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 switch	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flash	det
30	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flash	compound
31	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 switch	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 follow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the animals		a zoo or a aquarium	still	wild property	tree rules
2	follow	present	we	the signs				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
3	stay	present	we not said here		the barriers			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind barrier=Location
4	keep	present	we not said here				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	switch off	present	we not said here	the camera flash				vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Patient

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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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