Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 5

When you want to settle an argument about a creature, read a guide, count, or watch; never hurt an animal to prove a point.

Who acts: you · What happens: want, settle, read, count, watch, not hurt · To what, where: argument, guide, animal, point

This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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 (you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 want	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 read	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 settle	mark
5	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 argument	det
7	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 settle	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 creature	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 creature	det
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 argument	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
12	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 guide	det
14	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 read	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 count	punct
16	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 read	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watch	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 watch	cc
19	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 read	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hurt	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 hurt	advmod
22	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 read	parataxis
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 animal	det
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hurt	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 prove	mark
26	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hurt	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 point	det
28	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 prove	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	settle not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a argument	about a creature	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme argument=Location
3	read	imperative	you not said here	a guide		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guide=Topic
4	count	infinitive	you not said here			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	watch	infinitive	you not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	not hurt	infinitive		a animal		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient
7	prove	to-infinitive		a point		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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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