Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 13
Guinea pigs, rabbits, rats and budgies are social and get lonely alone; guinea pigs have no tail you can see, and Switzerland has a law saying guinea pigs must be kept with a companion.
Who acts: Guinea pigs, you, Switzerland, law · What happens: be, get, have, see, say, keep · To what, where: tail, law, guinea pigs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Guinea pigs, you, Switzerland, law), 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 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pigs | compound |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 social | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rabbits | punct |
| 4 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pigs | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rats | punct |
| 6 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pigs | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 budgies | cc |
| 8 | budgies | budgie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pigs | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 social | cop |
| 10 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 social | conj |
| 13 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pigs | compound |
| 17 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 social | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 tail | det |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tail | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 has | cc |
| 26 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 social | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 law | det |
| 29 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 30 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 law | acl |
| 31 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pigs | compound |
| 32 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 kept | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 kept | aux:pass |
| 35 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 saying | ccomp |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 companion | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 companion | det |
| 38 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kept | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 social | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Guinea pigs and rabbits and rats and budgies | social property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Guinea pigs and rabbits and rats and budgies not said here | alone, lonely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | present | guinea pigs | no tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | can | you | no tail not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | present | Switzerland | a law | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | a law not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | keep | must · passive | guinea pigs | with a companion | vn keep-15.2 «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:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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