Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 1

A dog that bounced around when you started school may have a grey muzzle, stiff legs and cloudy eyes by the time you finish primary school.

Who acts: dog, you · What happens: bounce around, start, have, finish · To what, where: school, grey muzzle, primary school

This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (dog, you), 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 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bounced	nsubj
4	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dog	acl:relcl
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 bounced	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 started	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bounced	advcl
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 started	obj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 muzzle	det
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 muzzle	amod
14	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 legs	punct
16	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 legs	amod
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 muzzle	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eyes	cc
19	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eyes	amod
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 legs	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 finish	nsubj
25	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 time	acl:relcl
26	primary	primary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 school	amod
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 finish	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bounce around	past	a dog			around property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	you	school			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Eventuality
3	have	may	a dog	a grey muzzle and stiff legs and cloudy eyes	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muzzle=Patient
4	finish	present	you	primary school			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector school=Eventuality

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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:1.

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): R7-rel-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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