Facing fears, sentence 10
Most spiders and insects are harmless; keep your distance and ask an adult to move them, and in Australia some spiders need an adult.
Who acts: Most spiders, spiders · What happens: be, keep, ask, move, need · To what, where: distance, adult, spiders, Australia
This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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 (Most spiders, spiders), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 harmless | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 insects | cc |
| 4 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spiders | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 harmless | cop |
| 6 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 harmless | punct |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 harmless | parataxis |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 distance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ask | cc |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 keep | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 adult | det |
| 14 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 move | mark |
| 16 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 move | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 need | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 need | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Australia | case |
| 21 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 need | obl |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 spiders | det |
| 23 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 need | nsubj |
| 24 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 harmless | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 adult | det |
| 26 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 need | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 harmless | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most spiders and insects | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | your distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | move not said to happen | to-infinitive | spiders = spider | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 5 | need | present | some spiders | a adult | Australia | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=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:090-facing-fears.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×3. 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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