Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 15
Play keeps pets happy; hunting games with toys keep a cat's mind busy.
Who acts: Play, hunting games, cat · What happens: keep, hunt, mind · To what, where: pets, mind
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 (Play, hunting games, cat), 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 | Play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keeps | obj |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 games | amod |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 toys | case |
| 9 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 games | nmod |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keeps | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mind | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 cat | case |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 15 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 keep | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Play | pets | happy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | |||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | keep | present | hunting games with toys | a cat's mind | busy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | |||
| 4 | mind | a cat | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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