Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 14
Food, vet visits, vaccines, insurance, toys and beds cost far more than the pet itself, and over its life a dog can cost many thousands of pounds.
Who acts: Food, dog · What happens: cost · To what, where: more, many thousands, life
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 (Food, dog), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cost | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 visits | punct |
| 3 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visits | compound |
| 4 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Food | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vaccines | punct |
| 6 | vaccines | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Food | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 insurance | punct |
| 8 | insurance | insurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Food | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 toys | punct |
| 10 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Food | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beds | cc |
| 12 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 toys | conj |
| 13 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 cost | obj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 pet | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pet | det |
| 18 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 more | obl |
| 19 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 pet | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cost | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cost | cc |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cost | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dog | det |
| 26 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cost | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 cost | aux |
| 28 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cost | conj |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thousands | amod |
| 30 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cost | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pounds | case |
| 32 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 thousands | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cost | 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 | cost | present | Food and vet visits and vaccines and insurance and toys and beds | more | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | ||||
| 2 | cost | can | a dog | many thousands of pounds | insurance's life | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value |
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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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