Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 11
Big, energetic dogs like huskies need lots of space and hours of running every day; a husky was bred to pull sleds for hours in the cold.
Who acts: Big energetic dogs · What happens: need, run, breed, pull · To what, where: lots, husky, sleds, cold
This is a sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» 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 (Big energetic 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dogs | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Big | punct |
| 3 | energetic | energetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dogs | amod |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 huskies | case |
| 6 | huskies | husky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | nmod |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 space | case |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lots | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hours | cc |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 space | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 running | case |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hours | nmod |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bred | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 husky | det |
| 19 | husky | husky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bred | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bred | aux:pass |
| 21 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 need | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pull | mark |
| 23 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bred | advcl |
| 24 | sleds | sled | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pull | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 hours | case |
| 26 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pull | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 cold | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cold | det |
| 29 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pull | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Big energetic dogs like huskies | lots of space and hours | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | breed | past · passive | a husky | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pull | to-infinitive | sleds | the cold | hour | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=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:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.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): 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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