Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 2

Wise families sit down before getting a pet and write a list: who feeds it, who cleans up, who walks it, where it goes on holiday, how long it is alone and how much it all costs.

Who acts: Wise families, list · What happens: sit down, get, write, feed, clean up, walk · To what, where: pet, list, holiday

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 (Wise families, list), 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	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sit	compound:prt
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 getting	mark
6	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sit	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pet	det
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 write	cc
10	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 getting	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 list	det
12	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 write	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 feeds	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 feeds	nsubj
15	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 list	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feeds	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cleans	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 cleans	nsubj
19	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 feeds	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 cleans	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walks	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 walks	nsubj
23	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cleans	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walks	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 goes	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 goes	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 goes	nsubj
28	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 walks	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 holiday	case
30	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 long	punct
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 alone	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 alone	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 alone	cop
36	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sit	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 costs	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 costs	amod
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 costs	nsubj
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 it	det
42	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 alone	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	Wise families				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	gerund	Wise families not said here	a pet			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus
3	write	infinitive	Wise families not said here	a list			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme
4	feed	present	a list	list			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	clean up	present					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	walk	present		list			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
7	go	present	list		holiday		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location
8	is	present	list			alone, long property	tree rules
9	cost	present	list				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:2.

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, 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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