Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 20
A dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30, and their long pointed canines make deep narrow holes that trap germs, so even small bites can get infected.
Who acts: dog, cat, long pointed canines, deep narrow holes, small bites · What happens: have, point, make, trap, get · To what, where: 42 teeth, 30, deep narrow holes, germs
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 (dog, cat, long pointed canines, deep narrow holes), 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 | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 teeth | nummod |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 has | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 10 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 has | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 canines | nmod:poss |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 canines | amod |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 canines | amod |
| 16 | canines | canine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | nsubj |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 holes | amod |
| 19 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 holes | amod |
| 20 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 trap | nsubj |
| 22 | trap | trap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 holes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trap | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 get | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 get | advmod |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 bites | advmod |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bites | amod |
| 28 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 get | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 get | aux |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 has | conj |
| 31 | infected | infected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 get | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a dog | 42 teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a cat | 30 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=Patient | ||||
| 3 | point | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | present | teeth's long pointed canines | deep narrow holes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 5 | trap | present | deep narrow holes | germs | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient | ||||
| 6 | get | can | small bites | infected property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:20.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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