Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 22
Zoo barriers keep people far enough away that an animal cannot reach them; climbing over one has led to serious injuries.
Who acts: Zoo barriers, animal, climbing · What happens: keep, not reach, climb, lead · To what, where: people, barriers
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 (Zoo barriers, animal, climbing), 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 | Zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 barriers | compound |
| 2 | barriers | barrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 enough | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 keep | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 reach | advmod |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reach | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 climbing | punct |
| 16 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 led | csubj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 climbing | obl |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | aux |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 keep | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 injuries | case |
| 22 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 injuries | amod |
| 23 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | 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 | keep | present | Zoo barriers | people | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 2 | not reach | can | a animal | barriers = barrier | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | over one | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over one=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | lead | present · perfect | climbing | to serious injuries | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to injury=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:22.
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, R7-rel-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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