Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 22

Kittens found alone usually have a mother nearby looking for food, so watch from far away and tell a grown-up rather than picking them up.

Who acts: Kittens, mother · What happens: find, have, look, watch, tell, pick up · To what, where: mother, grown, kittens · 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 (Kittens, mother), 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	Kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Kittens	acl
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 found	advmod
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	9 looking	advmod
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mother	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watch	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 watch	advmod
14	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 far	case
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 watch	advmod
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 watch	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 up	det
21	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 grown	punct
23	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
24	rather	rather	ADV	_	21 grown	advmod
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 picking	mark
26	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tell	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 picking	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 picking	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	Kittens not said here		alone property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	Kittens	a mother	usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
3	look	gerund	a mother not said here		for food; nearby property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme
4	watch	infinitive			far property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive		grown		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic
6	pick up	gerund		kittens = kitten		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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:22.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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