Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 12
Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a month causes smells and illness.
Who acts: Cages, dirty bedding · What happens: need, leave, cause · To what, where: cleaning, dirty bedding, smells
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 (Cages, dirty bedding), 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 | Cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hutches | cc |
| 3 | hutches | hutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cages | conj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 5 cleaning | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 causes | punct |
| 8 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bedding | amod |
| 9 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 causes | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bedding | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 month | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 month | det |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 14 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | parataxis |
| 15 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 causes | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 illness | cc |
| 17 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smells | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Cages and hutches | cleaning | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cleaning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | dirty bedding not said here | month | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cause | present | dirty bedding | smells and illness | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition smell=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:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:12.
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): 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.
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