Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 16

Monkeys and other wild animals need groups, space and food a home cannot give, often become unhappy and bite, and in many countries keeping them as pets is banned or strictly controlled.

Who acts: Monkeys, home, many countries · What happens: need, not give, become, bite, keep, ban · To what, where: groups, food, home, many countries

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 (Monkeys, home, many countries), 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	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 animals	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Monkeys	conj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 space	punct
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 groups	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 food	cc
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 space	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 home	det
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 give	advmod
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 food	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 become	punct
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 become	advmod
19	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 give	advcl
20	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 become	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bite	cc
22	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 become	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 banned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 banned	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 countries	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countries	amod
27	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 banned	obl
28	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 countries	acl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keeping	obj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 pets	case
31	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 keeping	obl
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 banned	aux:pass
33	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 need	conj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 controlled	cc
35	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	36 controlled	advmod
36	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 banned	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	Monkeys and other wild animals	groups and space and food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot group=Theme
2	not give	can	a home	food not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	become	present	a home not said here			often, unhappy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	bite	infinitive	a home not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	keep	gerund	many countries not said here	home		as pets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	ban	present · passive	Monkeys and other wild animals not said here		many countries		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»
7	control	participle	Monkeys and other wild animals not said here			strictly property	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:16.

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. 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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