Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 12
Animals feel safe with calm people who move slowly and speak softly.
Who acts: Animals, calm people · What happens: feel, move, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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 (Animals, calm people), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feel | xcomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 safe | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 move | nsubj |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 move | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 speak | cc |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | conj |
| 12 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 11 speak | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Animals | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | move | present | calm people | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | calm people not said here | softly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:12.
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): 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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