A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 14

Puppies are born deaf and blind, their eyes open at about two weeks, and in Britain it is against the law to sell a puppy younger than eight weeks.

What happens: bear, be, sell · To what, where: Puppies, Britain, 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: 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	3 born	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 born	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blind	cc
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deaf	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eyes	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 open	nsubj
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 born	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 weeks	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 two	advmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 weeks	nummod
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 open	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 law	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 law	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Britain	case
18	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 law	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 law	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 law	cop
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 law	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 law	det
23	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sell	mark
25	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 law	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 puppy	det
27	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sell	obj
28	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 puppy	amod
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 weeks	case
30	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 weeks	nummod
31	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 younger	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 born	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive	Puppies		deaf property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	present		Britain	against the law	tree rules
3	sell	to-infinitive	a puppy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme

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:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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