Birds and baby animals, sentence 15

Pigeons, like many animals, can carry some germs, but the risk to people is low with normal hand-washing; pigeons carried messages in wars and some won medals.

Who acts: Pigeons, risk, some · What happens: carry, be, win · To what, where: germs, messages, wars

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 (Pigeons, risk, some), 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	Pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 animals	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pigeons	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pigeons	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 carry	aux
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 germs	det
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 low	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 low	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 risk	det
14	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 low	nsubj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 people	case
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 risk	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 low	cop
18	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 carry	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 washing	case
20	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 washing	amod
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 washing	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 hand	punct
23	washing	hand-washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 low	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 pigeons	punct
25	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carried	nsubj
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carry	parataxis
27	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carried	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 wars	case
29	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carried	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 medals	cc
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 won	nsubj
32	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carried	conj
33	medals	medal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 messages	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	can	Pigeons like many animals	some germs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	is	present	the risk to people			with normal hand washing; low property	tree rules
3	carry	past	pigeons	messages and medals	wars		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent message=Value in war=Location
4	win	past	some				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:15.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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