Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 4

That is why people say a pet is for life, not just for Christmas: a cute puppy becomes a big dog that needs walks, food and love for ten years or more.

Who acts: That, people, pet, cute puppy, big dog · What happens: be, say, become, need · To what, where: big dog, walks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, people, pet, cute 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pet	det
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 life	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 life	cop
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Christmas	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 Christmas	advmod
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 Christmas	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 Christmas	case
15	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 life	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 becomes	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 puppy	det
18	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 puppy	amod
19	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 becomes	nsubj
20	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dog	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dog	amod
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 becomes	xcomp
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 needs	nsubj
25	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dog	acl:relcl
26	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 needs	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 food	punct
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walks	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 love	cc
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 food	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 years	case
32	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 needs	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 more	cc
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 years	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			why property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	a pet			for life; for Christmas	tree rules
4	become	present	a cute puppy	a big dog			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	need	present	a big dog	walks and food and love	year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot walk=Theme

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:4.

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, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/4/