A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 15

Saying the puppy's name and rewarding a look with a tiny treat teaches the name, and short games of a few minutes work better than long lessons.

Who acts: Saying, short games, puppy · What happens: say, reward, teach, work, name · To what, where: name, look · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Saying, short games, puppy), 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	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 teaches	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 puppy	det
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 puppy	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rewarding	cc
7	rewarding	reward	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rewarding	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 treat	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 treat	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 treat	amod
13	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rewarding	obl
14	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 name	det
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teaches	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 work	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 work	cc
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 games	amod
20	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 work	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 minutes	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 minutes	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 minutes	amod
24	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 games	nmod
25	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 teaches	conj
26	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 work	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 lessons	case
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lessons	amod
29	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 work	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 teaches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the puppy's name		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	reward	gerund		a look	with a tiny treat	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent look=Recipient with treat=Theme
3	teach speech: other	present	Saying	the name		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	work	present	short games of a few minutes		than long lessons; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	name		the puppy			nom name «communication 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:15.

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): R6-punct-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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