The vet, sentence 11
A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound.
Who acts: cone, licking · What happens: stop, lick, open · To what, where: operation, stitches, wound
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 (cone, licking), 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 cone | det |
| 2 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 neck | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pet | det |
| 5 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 pet | case |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cone | nmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 operation | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 operation | det |
| 10 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stops | obl |
| 11 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stops | obj |
| 13 | licking | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stops | xcomp |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stitches | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 licking | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stops | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 open | mark |
| 18 | licking | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 open | csubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 open | aux |
| 20 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stops | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wound | det |
| 22 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 open | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a cone round a pet's neck | operation | after a operation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lick | gerund | a cone round a pet's neck not said here | operation's stitches | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent stitch=Source | ||||
| 3 | lick | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | open | can | licking | the wound | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wound=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:11.
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. 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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