Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 0
When a family brings a dog home from a rescue centre, everyone is excited, but the dog is now counting on them every single day for years, not only while it is new and fun.
Who acts: family, everyone, dog · What happens: bring, be, count, not be · To what, where: dog, rescue centre
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» 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 (family, everyone, dog), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 brings | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brings | nsubj |
| 4 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 excited | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brings | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 brings | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 centre | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 centre | det |
| 10 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 centre | compound |
| 11 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brings | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 excited | punct |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 excited | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 excited | cop |
| 15 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 counting | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 counting | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 counting | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 counting | aux |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | _ | 22 counting | advmod |
| 22 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 excited | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 counting | obl |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 day | det |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 counting | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 counting | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 new | punct |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 new | advmod |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 new | advmod |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 new | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 new | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 new | cop |
| 36 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 counting | advcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fun | cc |
| 38 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 new | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | a family | a dog | a rescue centre | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme from centre=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | everyone | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | count | present · progressive | the dog | now; day; year | on them = they | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on they=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is | present | dog | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | dog not said here | tree rules |
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:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:0.
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, R6-punct-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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