Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 8

Many cities and kind people look after street animals: feeding them at fixed places, vaccinating them and having a vet stop them having more babies, so fewer homeless kittens and puppies are born.

Who acts: Many cities, vet · What happens: look, feed, fix, vaccinate, have, stop · To what, where: cities, fixed places, vet, more babies, fewer homeless kittens

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), 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	6 look	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 people	cc
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cities	conj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 animals	case
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animals	compound
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
11	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 look	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feeding	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 places	case
14	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 places	amod
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feeding	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vaccinating	punct
17	vaccinating	vaccinate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 feeding	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 vaccinating	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 having	cc
20	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 feeding	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 vet	det
22	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 having	obj
23	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 having	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stop	obj
25	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stop	xcomp
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 babies	amod
27	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 having	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kittens	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 fewer	advmod
30	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 kittens	amod
31	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 kittens	amod
32	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 born	nsubj:pass
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 puppies	cc
34	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kittens	conj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 born	aux:pass
36	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 look	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look	present	Many cities and kind people			after street animals	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	feed	gerund	Many cities and kind people not said here	cities = city	fixed places		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	vaccinate	gerund	Many cities and kind people not said here	cities = city			tree rules
5	have	gerund	Many cities and kind people not said here	a vet			tree rules
6	stop	infinitive	a vet not said here	cities = city			tree rules
7	have	gerund	a vet not said here	more babies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
8	bear	present · passive		fewer homeless kittens and puppies			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:8.

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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