Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 9

Dogs bury food to save it for later, as wild dogs do, and may forget where they buried it.

Who acts: Dogs, wild dogs · What happens: bury, save, do, forget · To what, where: food, butter

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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, wild 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bury	nsubj
2	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bury	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bury	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 later	case
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 save	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dogs	amod
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 save	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forget	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forget	cc
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 forget	aux
17	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bury	conj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 buried	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 buried	nsubj
20	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forget	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 buried	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bury	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bury	present	Dogs	food	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	Dogs not said here	butter	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme for late=Source
3	do	present	wild dogs		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	forget	may	Dogs not said here		tree rules
5	bury	past	dogs = dog	butter	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:9.

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, 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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