Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 19
Older animals often wait the longest at rescue centres, though they are usually calm, trained and happy with a quiet life.
Who acts: Older animals, centres · What happens: wait, be, train · To what, where: longest, rescue centres
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 (Older animals, centres), 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 longest | det |
| 6 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 wait | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 centres | case |
| 8 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centres | compound |
| 9 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wait | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calm | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 calm | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 calm | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 calm | cop |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 calm | advmod |
| 15 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trained | punct |
| 17 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 calm | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 happy | cc |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 calm | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 life | det |
| 22 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 life | amod |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 happy | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | Older animals | the longest | rescue centres | often property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | centres = centre | calm, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | train | participle | centres = centre not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | centres = centre not said here | with a quiet life | 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:19.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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