Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 12

Rescue centres take in lost or given-up animals, and staff help match each one to the right family; many older animals are already trained and calm.

Who acts: Rescue centres, staff, help · What happens: take, give up, help, match, train · To what, where: lost, one, many older animals

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 (Rescue centres, staff, help), 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	Rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 centres	compound
2	centres	centre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 lost	case
5	lost	lost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 animals	cc
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lost	conj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 given	compound:prt
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 match	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 match	cc
13	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	nsubj
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 match	nsubj
15	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 match	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 family	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 family	det
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 family	amod
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 match	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 animals	amod
24	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 animals	amod
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 trained	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 trained	aux:pass
27	already	already	ADV	_	28 trained	advmod
28	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 take	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 calm	cc
30	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 trained	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	Rescue centres		lost or animals		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lost=Location
2	give up	participle	Rescue centres not said here				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help		staff				tree rules
4	match	infinitive	help	each one		to the right family	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient to family=Co-Patient
5	train	present · passive		many older animals			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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:12.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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