Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 5

Small animals can fall into a bucket of water and drown because they cannot climb the smooth sides.

Who acts: Small animals, children · What happens: fall, drown, not climb · To what, where: bucket, smooth sides

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 (Small animals, 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 bucket	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bucket	det
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bucket	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drown	cc
11	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fall	conj
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 climb	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 climb	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 climb	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 climb	advmod
16	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 drown	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sides	det
18	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sides	amod
19	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 climb	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	can	Small animals		into a bucket of water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bucket=Result
2	drown	infinitive	Small animals not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not climb	can	children = child	the smooth sides		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location side=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:5.

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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