Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 3

A girl in Florida sees her dog chewing a sock and a packet of pills; she tells her mum at once, because the sock could block its gut and the pills could poison it, and the vet may need to help quickly.

Who acts: girl, dog, sock, pills, vet · What happens: see, chew, tell, block, poison, need · To what, where: dog, sock, mum, gut · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, dog, sock, pills), 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 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dog	nmod:poss
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	obj
8	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dog	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sock	det
10	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chewing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 packet	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 packet	det
13	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sock	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 pills	case
15	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 packet	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tells	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tells	nsubj
18	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	parataxis
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mum	nmod:poss
20	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tells	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	_	18 tells	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 block	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 block	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sock	det
26	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 block	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 block	aux
28	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tells	advcl
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 gut	nmod:poss
30	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 block	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 poison	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pills	det
33	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 poison	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 poison	aux
35	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 block	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 poison	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 need	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 need	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 vet	det
40	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 need	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 need	aux
42	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sees	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 help	mark
44	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 need	xcomp
45	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	44 help	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	a girl in Florida	girl's dog			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
2	chew	gerund	girl's dog not said here	a sock and a packet of pills			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	present	girl		girl's mum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
4	block	could	the sock	packet's gut			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gut=Theme
5	poison	could	the pills	gut			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	need	may	the vet				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	the vet not said here			quickly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.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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