Birds and baby animals, sentence 10
Swans can hit hard and you should keep away from nesting swans, but there is little evidence of them breaking adults' arms.
Who acts: Swans, you, little evidence · What happens: hit, keep away, nest, be, break, evidence · To what, where: swans, arms, birds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 (Swans, you, little evidence), 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 | Swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | aux |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 hit | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 keep | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 keep | aux |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hit | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 keep | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 nesting | mark |
| 11 | nesting | nest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 keep | advcl |
| 12 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nesting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 is | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | conj |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evidence | amod |
| 18 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 evidence | nmod |
| 21 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 evidence | acl |
| 22 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 arms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 adults | case |
| 24 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 breaking | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | can | Swans | hard property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep away | should | you | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | nest | gerund | you not said here | swans | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Location | ||||
| 4 | be | present | little evidence of birds | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | gerund | little evidence of birds not said here | adults's arms | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient | ||||
| 6 | evidence | birds = bird | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.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): 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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