Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 9
In Britain a dog out in public must wear a collar tag with its owner's name and address; cats wear safety collars that snap open if they catch on a branch.
Who acts: dog, cats, safety collars, collars, owner · What happens: wear, snap, catch, name · To what, where: collar tag, Britain, safety collars, branch
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 (dog, cats, safety collars, collars), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | nsubj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 dog | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 public | case |
| 7 | public | public | NOUN | _ | 5 out | obl |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wear | aux |
| 9 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tag | det |
| 11 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tag | compound |
| 12 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 name | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 owner | nmod:poss |
| 15 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 owner | case |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tag | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 address | cc |
| 19 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wear | punct |
| 21 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wear | nsubj |
| 22 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wear | parataxis |
| 23 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 collars | compound |
| 24 | collars | collar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wear | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 snap | nsubj |
| 26 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 collars | acl:relcl |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 snap | xcomp |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 catch | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 catch | nsubj |
| 30 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 snap | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 branch | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 branch | det |
| 33 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 catch | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | must | a dog | a collar tag | Britain | with dog's owner's name and address | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tag=Source | ||
| 2 | wear | present | cats | safety collars | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent collar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | snap | present | safety collars | open property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch a condition, not said to happen | present | collars = collar | a branch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | dog's owner | 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:9.
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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