A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 8
Puppies chew while their teeth grow and to explore; a puppy has 28 baby teeth and a grown dog has 42.
Who acts: Puppies, teeth, puppy, grown dog · What happens: chew, grow, explore, have · To what, where: 28 baby teeth, 42
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 (Puppies, teeth, puppy, grown dog), 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 | 2 chew | nsubj |
| 2 | chew | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 grow | mark |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chew | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 explore | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 explore | mark |
| 9 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grow | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 puppy | det |
| 12 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chew | parataxis |
| 14 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 teeth | nummod |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teeth | compound |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 has | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 has | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dog | amod |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | conj |
| 22 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 has | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chew | 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 | Puppies | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | mother's teeth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | explore | to-infinitive | mother's teeth not said here | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | a puppy | 28 baby teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 5 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | have | present | a grown dog | 42 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 42=Patient |
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:8.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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