Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 6
Some swallowed things can poison a dog or block its gut and need a vet.
Who acts: swallowed things · What happens: swallow, poison, block, need · To what, where: dog, gut, vet
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 (swallowed things), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 things | det |
| 2 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 poison | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 poison | aux |
| 5 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poison | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 block | cc |
| 9 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 poison | conj |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gut | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 block | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 need | cc |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poison | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 vet | det |
| 15 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 need | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poison | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | poison | can | some swallowed things | a dog | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 3 | block | infinitive | some swallowed things not said here | pet's gut | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer gut=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | present | some swallowed things not said here | a vet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=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:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:6.
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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