Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 14
After moving house a cat is kept inside for a couple of weeks to learn its new home; butter on the paws does not help, it just makes greasy paws.
Who acts: butter · What happens: move, keep, learn, not help, make · To what, where: house, cat, new home, greasy paws
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 (butter), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 moving | mark |
| 2 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | advcl |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moving | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 7 kept | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 couple | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couple | det |
| 11 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 weeks | case |
| 13 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 couple | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 learn | mark |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kept | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 home | amod |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 learn | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 butter | punct |
| 20 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | nsubj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 paws | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 paws | det |
| 23 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 butter | nmod |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 help | advmod |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kept | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 makes | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 makes | nsubj |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 makes | advmod |
| 30 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | parataxis |
| 31 | greasy | greasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 paws | amod |
| 32 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 makes | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | present · passive | a cat | for a couple of weeks; inside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | cat's new home | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not help | present · do-support | butter on the paws | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | present | butter | greasy paws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material paw=Product |
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:14.
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): R7-rel-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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