Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 11

Bobbie the Wonder Dog was reported to walk about 4,000 kilometres home across the USA in 1924, and scientists still do not know how some pets find their way home.

Who acts: scientists, pets · What happens: report, walk, not know, find · To what, where: Bobbie, 4,000 kilometres, USA, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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 (scientists, 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	Bobbie	Bobbie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reported	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dog	det
3	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dog	compound
4	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bobbie	appos
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reported	aux:pass
6	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reported	xcomp
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 4,000	advmod
10	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 kilometres	nummod
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walk	obl
12	home	home	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 USA	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 USA	det
15	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 1924	case
17	1924	1924	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 walk	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 know	cc
20	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 know	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	24 know	advmod
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reported	conj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 find	advmod
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 pets	det
27	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 find	nsubj
28	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	ccomp
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	home	home	ADV	_	28 find	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	past · passive		Bobbie				tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive		4,000 kilometres	the USA		in 1924; home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across usa=Trajectory
3	not know	present · do-support	scientists			still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find	present	some pets	scientists's way			home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.lesson:11.

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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