A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 7

A new puppy often cries at night because it misses its mother and littermates, and puppies sleep about 18 hours a day while they grow.

Who acts: new puppy, bladder, puppies, mother · What happens: cry, miss, sleep, grow · To what, where: mother

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 (new puppy, bladder, puppies, mother), 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 puppy	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puppy	amod
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cries	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 cries	advmod
5	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cries	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 misses	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 misses	nsubj
10	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cries	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 misses	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 littermates	cc
14	littermates	littermate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mother	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sleep	cc
17	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sleep	nsubj
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cries	conj
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 18	advmod
20	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 hours	nummod
21	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sleep	obl:unmarked
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hours	nmod:unmarked
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 grow	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grow	nsubj
26	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sleep	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cries	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	a new puppy		night	often property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	miss	present	bladder	bladder's mother and littermates			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
3	sleep	present	puppies		hour		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	present	mother				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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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