A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 4
A puppy chews, nips and wees on the carpet not to be naughty but because it is a baby: its teeth are growing, it explores with its mouth and its bladder is tiny.
Who acts: puppy, carpet, teeth, bladder · What happens: chew, nip, wee, not be, be, grow · To what, where: carpet, baby
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 (puppy, carpet, teeth, bladder), 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 | 2 puppy | det |
| 2 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chews | nsubj |
| 3 | chews | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nips | punct |
| 5 | nips | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chews | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wees | cc |
| 7 | wees | wee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chews | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 carpet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carpet | det |
| 10 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wees | obl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 naughty | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 naughty | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 naughty | cop |
| 14 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wees | advcl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 explores | cc |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 baby | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 baby | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 baby | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 baby | det |
| 20 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 explores | advcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 growing | punct |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 growing | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 growing | aux |
| 25 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 baby | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 explores | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 explores | nsubj |
| 28 | explores | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chews | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 mouth | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 explores | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 tiny | cc |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 bladder | nmod:poss |
| 34 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tiny | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 tiny | cop |
| 36 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 explores | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chews | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | present | a puppy | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | nip | present | a puppy not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wee | present | a puppy not said here | the carpet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | to-infinitive | a puppy not said here | naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | carpet | a baby | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grow | present · progressive | carpet's teeth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | explore | present | carpet | with carpet's mouth | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is | present | carpet's bladder | tiny property | tree rules |
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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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