Caring for pets, sentence 6
A boy in Leeds gave his dog chocolate as a treat; the dog was sick, shaking and had to go to the vet.
Who acts: boy, dog · What happens: give, be, shake, have, go · To what, where: dog chocolate, vet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» 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 (boy, 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chocolate | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chocolate | compound |
| 8 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 treat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 treat | det |
| 11 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sick | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sick | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sick | cop |
| 16 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shaking | punct |
| 18 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sick | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 vet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vet | det |
| 25 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a boy in Leeds | boy's dog chocolate | as a treat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the dog | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the dog not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | have | past | a boy in Leeds not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds not said here | the vet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to vet=Initial_Location |
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:027-caring-for-pets.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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