Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 17

Some cheap puppies come from puppy farms where mothers are kept in poor conditions, and such puppies are more often ill or scared; good breeders and rescues let you meet the puppy with its mother.

Who acts: cheap puppies, such puppies, good breeders, you · What happens: come, keep, be, let, meet · To what, where: puppy farms, mothers, poor conditions, puppy

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 (cheap puppies, such puppies, good breeders, you), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 puppies	det
2	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puppies	amod
3	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 farms	case
6	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farms	compound
7	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 kept	advmod
9	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	aux:pass
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 farms	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 conditions	case
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 conditions	amod
14	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ill	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ill	cc
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 puppies	amod
18	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ill	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ill	cop
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 often	advmod
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 ill	advmod
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	conj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 scared	cc
24	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ill	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breeders	amod
27	breeders	breeder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 let	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rescues	cc
29	rescues	rescue	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 breeders	conj
30	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 meet	nsubj
32	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 puppy	det
34	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 meet	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 mother	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mother	nmod:poss
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 meet	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	some cheap puppies		puppy farms		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from farm=Initial_Location
2	keep	present · passive		mothers	poor conditions		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in condition=Location
3	is	present	such puppies			ill, often property	tree rules
4	be		such puppies not said here				tree rules
5	let	present	good breeders and rescues				tree rules
6	meet	infinitive	you	the puppy		with puppy's mother	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme with mother=Instrument

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:17.

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): 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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