Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 8
Before getting a pet, a family should agree who feeds it, cleans up, walks it, looks after it on holiday and pays for it; skipping these questions is why many animals end up in rescue centres.
Who acts: family, many animals · What happens: get, agree, feed, clean up, walk, look · To what, where: pet, dog, questions, rescue centres · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (family, many animals), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 getting | mark |
| 2 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 agree | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pet | det |
| 4 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 getting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 getting | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 agree | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 agree | aux |
| 9 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 feeds | nsubj |
| 11 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 agree | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feeds | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cleans | punct |
| 14 | cleans | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feeds | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 cleans | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walks | punct |
| 17 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feeds | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walks | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looks | punct |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feeds | conj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looks | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 holiday | case |
| 24 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looks | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pays | cc |
| 26 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feeds | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pays | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 skipping | punct |
| 30 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 agree | advcl |
| 31 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 questions | det |
| 32 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 skipping | obj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 why | cop |
| 34 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 skipping | advmod |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 animals | amod |
| 36 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 end | nsubj |
| 37 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 why | advcl:relcl |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 end | compound:prt |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 centres | case |
| 40 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 centres | compound |
| 41 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 end | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | a family not said here | a pet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | should | a family | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feed | present | dog | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | clean up | present | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | walk | present | dog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | look | present | after dog | on holiday | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on holiday=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pay | present | for dog | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | |||||
| 8 | skip | gerund | a family not said here | this questions | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Agent | ||||
| 9 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | end up | present | many animals | in rescue centres result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in centre=Result |
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:8.
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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