Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 12
A new baby or a new pet should be introduced slowly, always with an adult watching, because animals can feel jealous or scared.
Who acts: adult, animals · What happens: introduce, watch, feel · To what, where: new baby
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo 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 (adult, animals), 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 baby | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baby | amod |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 pet | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pet | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pet | amod |
| 7 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 baby | conj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 introduced | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 introduced | aux:pass |
| 10 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 introduced | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 watching | punct |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 watching | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 watching | mark |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 adult | det |
| 16 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watching | nsubj |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 introduced | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 feel | mark |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 feel | aux |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 introduced | advcl |
| 23 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feel | xcomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 scared | cc |
| 25 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 jealous | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | should · passive | a new baby or a new pet | slowly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a adult | always property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feel | can | animals | jealous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.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): 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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