Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 8
Many old dogs have stiff, sore joints called arthritis; shorter, gentler walks, soft beds, ramps and medicine from the vet help.
Who acts: Many old dogs, stiff sore joints, shorter gentler walks · What happens: have, call, help · To what, where: stiff sore joints, arthritis · 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 (Many old dogs, stiff sore joints, shorter gentler walks), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dogs | amod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dogs | amod |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 joints | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 joints | punct |
| 7 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 joints | amod |
| 8 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 joints | acl |
| 10 | arthritis | arthritis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 walks | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walks | punct |
| 14 | gentler | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 walks | amod |
| 15 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 help | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beds | punct |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beds | amod |
| 18 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 walks | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ramps | punct |
| 20 | ramps | ramp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 walks | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 medicine | cc |
| 22 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walks | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 vet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vet | det |
| 25 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 medicine | nmod |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 | have | present | Many old dogs | stiff sore joints | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | stiff sore joints not said here | arthritis | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | help | present | shorter gentler walks and soft beds and ramps and medicine from the vet | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:8.
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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