--- title: A family in Yellowstone walked up close to a bison to take a photo;… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Yellowstone walked up close to a bison to take a photo; it charged and threw the father into the air, and he was taken to hospital with broken ribs. Who acts: family. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Respecting wild animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/) / 21 # Respecting wild animals, sentence 21 A family in Yellowstone walked up close to a bison to take a photo; it charged and threw the father into the air, and he was taken to hospital with broken ribs. **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** walk, take, charge, throw, break · **To what, where:** photo, father, air, Yellowstone, hospital This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday 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 (family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:21 # text = A family in Yellowstone walked up close to a bison to take a photo; it charged and threw the father into the air, and he was taken to hospital with broken ribs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 070-respecting-wild-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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Yellowstone Yellowstone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bison bison NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 charged charge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | a family in Yellowstone | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | a family in Yellowstone *not said here* | a photo | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | | 3 | **charge** | past | family | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **throw** | past | family *not said here* | the father | | | | into the air *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer father=Theme into air=Result | | 5 | **take** | past · passive | | Yellowstone | | hospital | | with broken ribs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination | | 6 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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