Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 7
Big cats can break teeth on bones, and a broken tooth can get infected and hurt, so zoo vets do fillings and root canals like dentists, and some have fitted big cats with metal crowns.
Who acts: Big cats, zoo vets, some · What happens: break, infect, hurt, do, fit · To what, where: teeth, bones, broken tooth, fillings, big cats
This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology 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 (Big cats, zoo vets, some), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 break | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | aux |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 break | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bones | case |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 break | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 infected | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 infected | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tooth | det |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tooth | amod |
| 12 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 infected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 infected | aux |
| 14 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 infected | aux:pass |
| 15 | infected | infect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 break | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | cc |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 infected | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 20 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vets | compound |
| 21 | vets | vet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | parataxis |
| 23 | fillings | filling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 canals | cc |
| 25 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 canals | compound |
| 26 | canals | canal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fillings | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 dentists | case |
| 28 | dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 canals | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fitted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fitted | cc |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 fitted | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fitted | aux |
| 33 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 do | conj |
| 34 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cats | amod |
| 35 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fitted | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 crowns | case |
| 37 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crowns | compound |
| 38 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fitted | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | can | Big cats | teeth | bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | infect | can · passive | a broken tooth | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 4 | hurt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | do | present | zoo vets | fillings and root canals like dentists | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filling=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | fit | present · perfect | some | big cats | with metal crowns | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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, 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:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:7.
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.
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