Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 15
A dog called Bluey in Australia was reported to live over 29 years, and a cat called Creme Puff in the USA was reported to live 38 years; these are rare records.
Who acts: these · What happens: call, report, live, be · To what, where: dog, cat, rare records · 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 (these), 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 | 8 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dog | acl |
| 4 | Bluey | Bluey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Australia | case |
| 6 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bluey | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reported | aux:pass |
| 8 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 reported | xcomp |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reported | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 reported | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cat | det |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cat | acl |
| 19 | Creme | Creme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Puff | compound |
| 20 | Puff | Puff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 USA | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 USA | det |
| 23 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Puff | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 reported | aux:pass |
| 25 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 reported | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 live | mark |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 reported | xcomp |
| 28 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 live | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 records | punct |
| 31 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 records | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 records | cop |
| 33 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 records | amod |
| 34 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reported | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a dog not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | report | past · passive | a dog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | a cat not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | report | past · passive | a cat | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | live | to-infinitive | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | these | rare records | 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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:15.
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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