Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 4

Pets also get lost in other ways: a cat let out too soon after moving house may wander back to the old home, and a scared cat hides silently in a shed instead of answering its name.

Who acts: cat, scared cat · What happens: lose, let out, move, wander back, hide, answer · To what, where: Pets, other ways, house, old home, shed, name

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 (cat, scared cat), 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	4 lost	nsubj:pass
2	also	also	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ways	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ways	amod
7	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	nsubj
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 let	compound:prt
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 let	advmod
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 moving	mark
16	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 wander	advcl
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moving	obj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wander	aux
19	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 wander	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 home	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 home	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 home	amod
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wander	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hides	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hides	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cat	det
28	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cat	amod
29	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hides	nsubj
30	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 let	conj
31	silently	silently	ADV	_	30 hides	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 shed	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 shed	det
34	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hides	obl
35	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 answering	mark
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 instead	fixed
37	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 hides	advcl
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 name	nmod:poss
39	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 answering	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	infinitive · passive		Pets	other ways		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	let out	infinitive	a cat			soon property	tree rules
3	move	gerund		house			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	wander back	may	a cat not said here		the old home		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to home=Destination
5	hide	present	a scared cat		a shed	silently property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shed=Location
6	answer speech: assert	gerund	a scared cat not said here	cat's name			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality
7	name		cat				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:4.

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 ×2. 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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