Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 3
Loose garden netting tangles birds and hedgehogs, and slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wild animals, so children never touch them.
Who acts: Loose garden netting, slug pellets, children · What happens: tangle, kill, not touch · To what, where: birds, pets
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 (Loose garden netting, slug pellets, children), 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 | Loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 netting | amod |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 netting | compound |
| 3 | netting | netting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tangles | nsubj |
| 4 | tangles | tangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | conj |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tangles | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hedgehogs | cc |
| 7 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 birds | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pellets | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pellets | cc |
| 10 | slug | slug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pellets | compound |
| 11 | pellets | pellet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 poison | cc |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poison | compound |
| 14 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pellets | conj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 animals | cc |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 animals | amod |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pets | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 touch | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 touch | advmod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 touch | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 touch | advmod |
| 25 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 kill | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touch | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle | present | Loose garden netting | birds and hedgehogs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | can | slug pellets and rat poison | pets and wild animals | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not touch | infinitive | children | pets = pet | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:3.
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): no change. 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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