Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 7
A dog usually lives about 10 to 13 years and a cat about 12 to 18, so a pet is a promise for many years.
Who acts: dog, pet · What happens: live, be · To what, where: promise
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 (dog, pet), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 lives | advmod |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 10 | advmod |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 13 | case |
| 8 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 10 | nmod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cat | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 12 | advmod |
| 14 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 cat | appos |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 18 | case |
| 16 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 12 | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 promise | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 promise | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pet | det |
| 20 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 promise | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 promise | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 promise | det |
| 23 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 years | amod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 promise | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a dog | year | usually property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a pet | a promise | year | 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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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