Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 8
Zoo animals are wild animals and can be dangerous, so visitors stay behind barriers and never climb fences.
Who acts: Zoo animals, visitors · What happens: be, stay, not climb · To what, where: wild animals, barriers, fences
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 animals, visitors), 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 animals | compound |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | cop |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dangerous | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 dangerous | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dangerous | cop |
| 9 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 stay | advmod |
| 12 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stay | nsubj |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | parataxis |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 barriers | case |
| 15 | barriers | barrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stay | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 climb | cc |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 climb | advmod |
| 18 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | conj |
| 19 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 climb | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Zoo animals | wild animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | can | Zoo animals not said here | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | visitors | barriers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind barrier=Location | ||||
| 4 | not climb | present | visitors not said here | fences | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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