Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 4

A husky was bred to pull sleds for hours in the snow, so it would be bored and lonely there; a pair of guinea pigs or some fish might fit his life far better.

Who acts: husky, pair · What happens: breed, pull, be, fit · To what, where: husky, sleds, snow, 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 (husky, pair), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 husky	det
2	husky	husky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bred	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	aux:pass
4	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pull	mark
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bred	advcl
7	sleds	sled	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 hours	case
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bored	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 bored	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bored	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bored	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 bored	cop
18	bored	bore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bred	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 there	cc
20	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bored	conj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 bored	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 fit	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pair	det
24	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fit	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 pigs	case
26	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pigs	compound
27	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pair	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 fish	cc
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 fish	det
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pigs	conj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fit	aux
32	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bred	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fit	obj
35	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 better	advmod
36	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 fit	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bred	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	past · passive		a husky				tree rules
2	pull	to-infinitive		sleds	the snow	hour		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=Theme
3	is	would	husky		there		bore property	tree rules
4	be		husky not said here					tree rules
5	fit	might	a pair of guinea pigs or some fish	pair's life			good property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

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:4.

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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