Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 16
A found dog should not be grabbed, because a scared dog may bite; a grown-up can call the dog warden or take it to a vet, who scans the chip for free.
Who acts: scared dog, grown up, vet · What happens: find, not grab, bite, call, take, scan · To what, where: found dog, dog warden, dog, vet, chip · 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 (scared dog, grown up, vet), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grabbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 grabbed | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 grabbed | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grabbed | aux:pass |
| 7 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bite | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 bite | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 11 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dog | amod |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bite | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bite | aux |
| 14 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grabbed | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 call | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 up | det |
| 17 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 up | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 up | punct |
| 19 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 call | aux |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grabbed | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 warden | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warden | compound |
| 24 | warden | warden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 call | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 call | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 take | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 vet | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 vet | det |
| 30 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 scans | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 scans | nsubj |
| 33 | scans | scan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 vet | acl:relcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chip | det |
| 35 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scans | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 free | case |
| 37 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 scans | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grabbed | 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 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not grab | should · passive | a found dog | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bite | may | a scared dog | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | call | can | a grown up | the dog warden | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warden=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | a grown up not said here | dog | a vet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to vet=Destination | |||
| 6 | scan | present | a vet | the chip | for free | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent chip=Theme for free=Attribute |
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:16.
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. 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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