A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 3
A cosy bed nearby and a calm voice help it settle over a few nights.
Who acts: cosy bed, pile · What happens: help, settle · To what, where: pile
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 (cosy bed, pile), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 2 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bed | amod |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | nsubj |
| 4 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 3 bed | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 voice | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bed | conj |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 help | xcomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 nights | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nights | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nights | amod |
| 15 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 settle | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a cosy bed and a calm voice | pile | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | settle | infinitive | pile not said here | night | vn correspond-36.1 «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:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:3.
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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