Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 3
Picture a boy who dreams of a husky in a small flat while everyone is out all day.
Who acts: you, boy, everyone · What happens: picture, dream, be · To what, where: boy
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 (you, boy, everyone), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 dreams | nsubj |
| 5 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boy | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 husky | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 husky | det |
| 8 | husky | husky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dreams | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 flat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flat | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flat | amod |
| 12 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 husky | obl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 out | mark |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 out | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 out | cop |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 dreams | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 out | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a boy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dream | present | a boy | of a husky | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | everyone | day | out property | tree rules |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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