Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 23
Most young wild animals found alone are not lost; their parent is nearby, and taking them away often kills them.
Who acts: parent, taking · What happens: find, not lose, be, take away, kill · To what, where: Most young wild animals, animals
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 (parent, taking), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 animals | amod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 animals | acl |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 lost | advmod |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 nearby | punct |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parent | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nearby | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nearby | cop |
| 14 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 9 lost | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kills | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kills | cc |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 kills | csubj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taking | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 taking | advmod |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 kills | advmod |
| 21 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kills | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | Most young wild animals not said here | alone property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not lose | present · passive | Most young wild animals | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | present | animals's parent | nearby property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take away | gerund | animals = animal | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | present | taking | animals = animal | often property | vn remove-10.1 «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:23.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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