Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 12

Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law; if a family really cannot keep it, a shelter helps find it a new home.

Who acts: Abandoning, family, shelter · What happens: abandon, be, not keep, help, find · To what, where: pet

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» 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 (Abandoning, family, shelter), 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	Abandoning	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cruel	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pet	det
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Abandoning	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cruel	cop
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 law	cc
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 law	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 law	det
9	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cruel	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 helps	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 keep	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	nsubj
14	really	really	ADV	_	17 keep	advmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 keep	advmod
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 helps	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shelter	det
21	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 helps	nsubj
22	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cruel	parataxis
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 helps	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 home	det
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 home	amod
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	abandon	gerund		a pet		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme pet=Source
2	is	present	Abandoning		cruel property	tree rules
3	not keep a condition, not said to happen	can	a family	pet		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	help	present	a shelter			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	find	infinitive	a shelter not said here	pet		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute

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:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:12.

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, 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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