Kindness to animals, sentence 11
A small pet is held gently and close to the body with both hands, low down, so it cannot fall.
Who acts: pet · What happens: hold, not fall · To what, where: small pet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» 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 (pet), 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 | 3 pet | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pet | amod |
| 3 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | aux:pass |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 held | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 close | cc |
| 8 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 held | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 body | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 close | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hands | det |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 down | punct |
| 16 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 down | advmod |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 held | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fall | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 23 fall | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fall | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fall | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fall | advmod |
| 23 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 held | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | a small pet | with both hands; down, gently property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not fall | can | pet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:11.
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, R8-pos-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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