Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 8
Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, because it contains a chemical that dogs cannot break down well.
Who acts: Chocolate, pet, dogs · What happens: be, contain, not break down · To what, where: chemical
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 (Chocolate, pet, dogs), 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 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poisonous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 poisonous | cop |
| 3 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 dogs | case |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poisonous | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 contains | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 contains | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 contains | nsubj |
| 9 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 poisonous | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chemical | det |
| 11 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 break | obj |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 break | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 break | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 break | advmod |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 chemical | acl:relcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 break | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 down | fixed |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poisonous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chocolate | to dogs; poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | present | pet | a chemical | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chemical=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not break down | can | dogs | a chemical | down property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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