The vet, sentence 10

Dogs sometimes swallow odd things like socks and toys; an X-ray can show them, and some objects block the gut and need an operation.

Who acts: Dogs, X ray, objects · What happens: swallow, show, block, need · To what, where: odd things, things, gut, operation

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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, X ray, objects), 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	3 swallow	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 swallow	advmod
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swallow	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 socks	case
7	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 toys	cc
9	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 socks	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 swallow	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ray	det
12	X	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ray	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 X	punct
14	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 show	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 show	aux
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swallow	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 show	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 block	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 block	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 objects	det
21	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 block	nsubj
22	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gut	det
24	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 block	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 need	cc
26	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 block	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 operation	det
28	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 need	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swallow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	Dogs	odd things	like socks and toys; sometimes property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	show	can	a X ray	things = thing		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	block	present	some objects	the gut		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gut=Theme
4	need	present	some objects not said here	a operation		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=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:227-the-vet.lesson:10.

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): 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.

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