--- title: Some children in Ireland threw stones at a swan's nest; the swan att… — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Some children in Ireland threw stones at a swan's nest; the swan attacked to protect its eggs, one child was hit by its wing, and the eggs were broken. Who acts: children, swan, wing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, swan, wing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:14 # text = Some children in Ireland threw stones at a swan's nest; the swan attacked to protect its eggs, one child was hit by its wing, and the eggs were broken. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 207-kindness-to-animals.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:cop 33 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | past | some children in Ireland | stones | | a swan's nest | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at nest=Destination | | 2 | **attack** | past | the swan | | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **protect** | to-infinitive | the swan *not said here* | swan's eggs | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary | | 4 | **hit** | past · passive | swan's wing | one child | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 5 | **break** | past · passive | | the eggs | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:207-kindness-to-animals.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kindness to animals, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/13/) - next →: [Kindness to animals, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/)