Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 16
Chasing pigeons or ducks frightens and tires them, so we watch them calmly.
Who acts: Chasing, we · What happens: chase, frighten, tire, watch · To what, where: pigeons
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 (Chasing, 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 | Chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 frightens | csubj |
| 2 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chasing | obj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 ducks | cc |
| 4 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pigeons | conj |
| 5 | frightens | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tires | cc |
| 7 | tires | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightens | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tires | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 watch | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 watch | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 watch | nsubj |
| 12 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightens | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 watch | obj |
| 14 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 12 watch | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightens | 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 | chase | gerund | pigeons or ducks | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme | |||||
| 2 | frighten | present | Chasing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tire | present | Chasing not said here | pigeons = pigeon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | watch | present | we | pigeons = pigeon | calmly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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