Kindness to wild animals, sentence 15

Dogs are social animals and need company; a dog left chained alone all day becomes lonely and unhappy, and an adult can report it to an animal welfare charity.

Who acts: Dogs, dog, adult · What happens: be, need, leave, chain, become, report · To what, where: social animals, company, dog, welfare charity

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» 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 (Dogs, dog, adult), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 need	cc
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	conj
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 chained	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dog	acl
12	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 left	xcomp
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 chained	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl:unmarked
16	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	parataxis
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 becomes	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 unhappy	cc
19	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lonely	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 report	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 report	cc
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 adult	det
23	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 report	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 report	aux
25	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 becomes	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 report	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 charity	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 charity	det
29	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 welfare	compound
30	welfare	welfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 charity	compound
31	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 report	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dogs	social animals				tree rules
2	need	present	Dogs not said here	company				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme
3	leave	participle		a dog not said here		day		tree rules
4	chain	participle	a dog not said here				alone property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	become	present	a dog				lonely property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	report	can	a adult	company	a welfare charity			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to charity=Recipient

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:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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