Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 20

A man climbed over a barrier at a zoo to get closer to a big cat; it struck him through the fence, and he needed surgery on his arm.

Who acts: man, group · What happens: climb, get, strike, need · To what, where: barrier, man, fence, surgery, arm

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 (man, group), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 barrier	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 barrier	det
6	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 zoo	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 zoo	det
9	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 climbed	advcl
12	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 get	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 cat	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cat	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cat	amod
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 closer	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 struck	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 struck	nsubj
19	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 struck	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 fence	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fence	det
23	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 struck	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 needed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 needed	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 needed	nsubj
27	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 struck	conj
28	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needed	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 arm	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arm	nmod:poss
31	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	a man		a barrier	at a zoo	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over barrier=Trajectory
2	get	to-infinitive	a man not said here			close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	strike	past	group	man	the fence		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
4	need	past	man	surgery	man's arm		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=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:20.

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 ×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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