A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 9

A puppy has a tiny bladder, so taking it outside after waking, eating and playing, and praising it there, teaches it quickly; telling it off for accidents makes it hide to wee.

Who acts: puppy, telling, bladder · What happens: have, take, wake, eat, play, praise · To what, where: tiny bladder, bladder

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, telling, 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 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bladder	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bladder	amod
6	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taking	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 taking	advmod
9	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 has	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taking	obj
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	9 taking	advmod
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 waking	mark
13	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 taking	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eating	punct
15	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 waking	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 playing	cc
17	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 waking	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 praising	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 praising	cc
20	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 waking	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 praising	obj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 praising	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 teaches	punct
24	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 waking	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 teaches	obj
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 teaches	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 telling	punct
28	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 makes	csubj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 telling	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	28 telling	compound:prt
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 accidents	case
32	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 telling	obl
33	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 makes	obj
35	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 makes	xcomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 wee	case
37	wee	wee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 hide	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a puppy	a tiny bladder				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient
2	take	gerund	a puppy not said here	bladder			outside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	wake	gerund	a puppy not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	eat	gerund	a puppy not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play	gerund	a puppy not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	praise	gerund	a puppy not said here	bladder		there		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	teach speech: other	present			bladder		quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
8	tell off speech: assert	gerund			bladder		for accidents	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
9	make	present	telling	bladder				tree rules
10	hide	infinitive	bladder not said here					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	wee	infinitive						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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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