Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 16
A pet is for life: a puppy given as a Christmas present grows up and needs many years of care.
Who acts: pet, puppy · What happens: be, give, grow up, need · To what, where: puppy
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 (pet, puppy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pet | det |
| 2 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 life | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puppy | det |
| 8 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grows | nsubj |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 puppy | acl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 present | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 present | det |
| 12 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 present | compound |
| 13 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 14 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 life | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grows | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 needs | cc |
| 17 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 grows | conj |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 years | amod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 needs | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 care | case |
| 21 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 years | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a pet | for life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a puppy not said here | as a Christmas present | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow up | present | a puppy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | need | present | a puppy not said here | year | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:16.
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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