Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 10
An old dog's cloudy blue eyes often mean the lens has just hardened with age and the dog can still see, but sometimes it is a cataract that blocks sight, so the vet checks.
Who acts: cloudy blue eyes, lens, dog, cataract, vet · What happens: mean, harden, see, be, block, check · To what, where: cataract, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cloudy blue eyes, lens, dog, cataract), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dog | case |
| 5 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 mean | advmod |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lens | det |
| 11 | lens | lens | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hardened | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hardened | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 hardened | advmod |
| 14 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 mean | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hardened | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hardened | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cataract | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 cataract | cc |
| 25 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 cataract | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cataract | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 cataract | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cataract | det |
| 29 | cataract | cataract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hardened | conj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 blocks | nsubj |
| 31 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 cataract | acl:relcl |
| 32 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 blocks | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 checks | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 checks | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 vet | det |
| 36 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 checks | nsubj |
| 37 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hardened | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a old dog's cloudy blue eyes | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | harden | present · perfect | the lens | with age | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | see | can | the dog | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | lens | a cataract | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | block | present | a cataract | sight | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sight=Theme | ||||
| 6 | check | present | the vet | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:10.
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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