Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 9

Dogs are pack animals and should not be left alone for more than about four hours; some dogs left too long bark, howl or chew out of worry.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: be, not leave, leave, bark, howl, chew out · To what, where: pack animals, dogs, worry

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 (Dogs), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 left	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 left	aux:pass
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 animals	conj
10	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 left	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 hours	case
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 hours	amod
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 hours	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 four	advmod
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hours	nummod
16	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 left	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bark	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 dogs	det
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bark	nsubj
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 dogs	acl:relcl
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 left	xcomp
23	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 howl	punct
25	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bark	conj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 chew	cc
27	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 howl	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	30 worry	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 out	fixed
30	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bark	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dogs	pack animals				tree rules
2	not leave	should · passive	Dogs not said here			hour	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	leave	participle		some dogs not said here			long property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bark	present	some dogs		worry			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	howl	present	some dogs not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	chew out	present	some dogs not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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. 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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