Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom, sentence 15

A girl in Texas tried to hug a neighbour's dog while it was eating; it bit her face, and she needed stitches.

Who acts: girl, dog · What happens: try, hug, eat, bite, need · To what, where: dog, face, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday 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 (girl, dog), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hug	mark
7	hug	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 neighbour	det
9	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 neighbour	case
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hug	obj
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 eating	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eating	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eating	aux
15	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hug	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bit	nsubj
18	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	parataxis
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bit	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 needed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 needed	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 needed	nsubj
24	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bit	conj
25	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 needed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	past	a girl in Texas		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hug not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl in Texas not said here	a neighbour's dog	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent
3	eat	past · progressive	dog		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bite	past	dog	girl's face	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
5	need	past	girl	stitches	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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