Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 20

Pets let go can die or become pests that harm wild animals, and rescue centres and pet shops can take unwanted pets back.

Who acts: Pets, pests, rescue centres · What happens: let, go, die, become, harm, take back · To what, where: Pets, pests, wild animals, unwanted pets

This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (Pets, pests, rescue 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	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj:outer
2	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Pets	acl
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 become	cc
7	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 die	conj
8	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 become	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 harm	nsubj
10	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pests	acl:relcl
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 harm	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
15	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 centres	compound
16	centres	centre	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 take	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shops	cc
18	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shops	compound
19	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 centres	conj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 die	conj
22	unwanted	unwanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pets	amod
23	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 take	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	21 take	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	participle		Pets not said here		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Pets not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	can	Pets			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	become	infinitive	Pets not said here	pests		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient pest=Result
5	harm	present	pests	wild animals		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer
6	take back	can	rescue centres and pet shops		unwanted pets	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pet=Destination

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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:20.

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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