Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 8
Released pets can die or become pests, and many pests around the world began as someone's unwanted pet.
Who acts: Released pets, many pests · What happens: release, die, become, begin · To what, where: pests
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 (Released pets, many pests), 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 | Released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pets | amod |
| 2 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 become | cc |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 die | conj |
| 7 | pests | pest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 become | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pests | amod |
| 11 | pests | pest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 began | nsubj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pests | nmod |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 pet | case |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 pet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 someone | case |
| 19 | unwanted | unwanted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pet | amod |
| 20 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | participle | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 2 | die | can | Released pets | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | become | infinitive | Released pets not said here | pests | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | many pests around the world | as someone's unwanted pet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: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): R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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