--- title: On the canal a swan rears up at Sam's dog, its wings booming like a… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics description: On the canal a swan rears up at Sam's dog, its wings booming like a door slamming; Sam's dad says a swan guarding cygnets (baby swans) can hurt a small dog badly. Who acts: swan, wings, dad. 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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 (swan, wings, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:9 # text = On the canal a swan rears up at Sam's dog, its wings booming like a door slamming; Sam's dad says a swan guarding cygnets (baby swans) can hurt a small dog badly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 rears rear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:appos 15 booming boom VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 slamming slam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 27 guarding guard VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 cygnets cygnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 30 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rear up** | present | a swan | | | the canal | | at Sam's dog | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **boom** | gerund | swan's wings | | | | | like a door | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **slam** | gerund | swan's wings *not said here* | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sam's dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **guard** | gerund | a swan *not said here* | cygnets | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cygnet=Beneficiary | | 6 | **hurt** | can | a swan | a small dog | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/8/) - next →: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/)