Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 4
A girl on a beach in Cornwall sees a seal resting on the sand; she keeps her dog on its lead, stays well back and watches quietly, and the seal sleeps on in peace.
Who acts: girl, seal · What happens: see, rest, keep, stay, watch, sleep on · To what, where: seal, sand, dog, lead, peace
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 (girl, seal), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 beach | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 beach | det |
| 5 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Cornwall | case |
| 7 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 beach | nmod |
| 8 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seal | det |
| 10 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sees | obj |
| 11 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seal | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sand | det |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resting | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeps | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sees | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dog | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 lead | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lead | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stays | punct |
| 24 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keeps | conj |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 back | advmod |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 stays | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 watches | cc |
| 28 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stays | conj |
| 29 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 28 watches | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sleeps | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sleeps | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 seal | det |
| 33 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sleeps | nsubj |
| 34 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sees | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 sleeps | compound:prt |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 peace | case |
| 37 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sleeps | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a girl on a beach in Cornwall | a seal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rest | gerund | a seal not said here | the sand | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | girl | girl's dog | dog's lead | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location | |||
| 4 | stay | present | girl not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | watch | present | girl not said here | quietly property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sleep on | present | the seal | peace | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location |
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:4.
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 ×2, 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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