Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 16
"Free to a good home" means the owner no longer wants the animal and is giving it away.
Who acts: owner · What happens: mean, want, give away · To what, where: animal, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms 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 (owner), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Free | punct |
| 2 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | csubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 home | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 home | amod |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Free | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Free | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 owner | det |
| 10 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wants | nsubj |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 wants | advmod |
| 13 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wants | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 giving | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 giving | aux |
| 18 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wants | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 giving | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 giving | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the owner | the animal | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot animal=Theme | |||
| 3 | give away | present · progressive | the owner not said here | home | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:euphemisms:018-pets-and-money.lesson:16.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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