Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 14
Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protects the hens better than anger.
Who acts: Foxes, chickens, stronger coop · What happens: hunt, be, protect · To what, where: chickens, hens
This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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 (Foxes, chickens, stronger coop), 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 | Foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | nsubj |
| 2 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | obj |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 hungry | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hunt | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 protects | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coop | det |
| 10 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 coop | amod |
| 11 | coop | coop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 protects | nsubj |
| 12 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunt | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hens | det |
| 14 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 protects | obj |
| 15 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 protects | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 anger | case |
| 17 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 better | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | Foxes | chickens | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | chickens = chicken | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | protect | present | a stronger coop | the hens | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary |
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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:14.
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. 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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