Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 3
Running makes a dog want to chase, just as a ball rolling away does.
Who acts: Running, dog, ball · What happens: make, want, chase, roll away, do
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 (Running, dog, ball), 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 | Running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 chase | mark |
| 7 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 does | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 does | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 does | nsubj |
| 13 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ball | acl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 rolling | advmod |
| 15 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Running | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | infinitive | a dog | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | chase not said to happen | to-infinitive | a dog not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | roll away | gerund | a ball not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | present | a ball | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:3.
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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