A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 10

Puppies need their vaccinations before walking where other dogs go, because serious illnesses spread through dog poo and spit; until then a puppy can be carried outside.

Who acts: Puppies, other dogs, serious illnesses, accidents · What happens: need, walk, go, spread, carry, vaccinate · To what, where: vaccinations, dog poo, puppy

This is a sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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 (Puppies, other dogs, serious illnesses, accidents), 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	Puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 vaccinations	nmod:poss
4	vaccinations	vaccination	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 walking	mark
6	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 need	advcl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 go	advmod
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dogs	amod
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 walking	advcl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 spread	mark
13	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 illnesses	amod
14	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spread	nsubj
15	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	advcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 poo	case
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poo	compound
18	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spread	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spit	cc
20	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poo	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 puppy	punct
22	until	until	ADP	_	23 then	case
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 puppy	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 puppy	det
25	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	nsubj:pass
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 carried	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 carried	aux:pass
28	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 need	parataxis
29	outside	outside	ADV	_	28 carried	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	Puppies	accidents's vaccinations			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vaccination=Theme
2	walk	gerund	Puppies not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	other dogs				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spread	present	serious illnesses		dog poo and spit		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through poo=Location
5	carry	can · passive		a puppy		outside property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	vaccinate		accidents = accident				nom vaccination «act transitive»: poss=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:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:10.

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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