Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 18

Many cities catch street cats and dogs, have a vet do a small operation so they cannot have babies, vaccinate them and let them go back; a clipped ear or ear tag shows it has been done.

Who acts: Many cities, vet, cities, babies, clipped ear · What happens: catch, have, do, not have, vaccinate, let · To what, where: street cats, vet, small operation, babies, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (Many cities, vet, cities, babies), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cities	amod
2	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	nsubj
3	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cats	compound
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dogs	cc
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cats	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vet	det
11	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 operation	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 operation	amod
15	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obj
16	so	so	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 do	advcl
21	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 vaccinate	punct
23	vaccinate	vaccinate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 vaccinate	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 vaccinate	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 shows	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 ear	det
32	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 ear	amod
33	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shows	nsubj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 tag	cc
35	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tag	compound
36	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ear	conj
37	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 done	nsubj:pass
39	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 done	aux:pass
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 shows	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 catch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	present	Many cities	street cats and dogs	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	have	present	Many cities not said here	a vet	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	a vet not said here	a small operation	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality
4	not have	can	cities = city	babies	tree rules
5	vaccinate	infinitive	babies not said here	babies = baby	tree rules
6	let	infinitive	babies not said here	babies = baby	tree rules
7	go back	infinitive	babies = baby not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
8	clip	participle			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	show	present	a clipped ear or ear tag		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	do	present · perfect · passive		cat	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:18.

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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