Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 18

Missing a pet is normal; talking, drawing, a photo book or planting a tree can help, and other pets in the home may seem sad too.

Who acts: Missing, other pets · What happens: miss, be, talk, draw, plant, help · To what, where: pet, photo book, tree

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 (Missing, other pets), 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	Missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 normal	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pet	det
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Missing	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 normal	cop
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 talking	punct
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 help	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drawing	punct
9	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 talking	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 book	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 book	det
12	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 book	compound
13	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drawing	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 planting	cc
15	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 talking	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 planting	obj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 normal	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seem	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seem	cc
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pets	amod
23	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seem	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 home	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 home	det
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pets	nmod
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 seem	aux
28	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	conj
29	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seem	xcomp
30	too	too	ADV	_	28 seem	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 normal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		a pet		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus
2	is	present	Missing		normal property	tree rules
3	talk	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	gerund		a photo book		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	plant	gerund		a tree		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
6	help	can				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	seem	may	other pets in the home		sad property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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:18.

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, R5-strong ×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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