Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 4

Animals feel safe with calm people: a boy in Auckland who moves slowly and speaks softly gets to watch a blackbird pull up a worm only a few steps away.

Who acts: Animals, boy, blackbird · What happens: feel, move, speak, get, watch, pull up · To what, where: worm · 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, boy, blackbird), 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 moves	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gets	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Auckland	case
11	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 boy	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 moves	nsubj
13	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 boy	acl:relcl
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 moves	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 speaks	cc
16	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 moves	conj
17	softly	softly	ADV	_	16 speaks	advmod
18	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feel	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 watch	mark
20	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 gets	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blackbird	det
22	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pull	nsubj
23	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 watch	xcomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 pull	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 worm	det
26	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pull	obj
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 steps	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 steps	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 steps	amod
30	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 away	obl
31	away	away	ADV	_	23 pull	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Animals		safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	move	present	a boy in Auckland		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	present	a boy in Auckland not said here		softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	a boy in Auckland			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	watch	to-infinitive	a boy in Auckland not said here			tree rules
6	pull up	infinitive	a blackbird	a worm	away property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent worm=Result

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: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. 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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