Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 22

A boy in Ohio patted a dog tied outside a shop without asking; the frightened dog bit his hand and he needed stitches and an injection against germs.

Who acts: boy, frightened dog · What happens: pat, tie, ask, bite, need · To what, where: dog, hand, stitches

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 (boy, frightened 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 patted	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	patted	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 patted	obj
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dog	acl
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 shop	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shop	det
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 asking	mark
13	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tied	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bit	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dog	det
16	frightened	frighten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dog	amod
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bit	nsubj
18	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 patted	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bit	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 needed	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 needed	nsubj
23	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bit	conj
24	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 needed	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 injection	cc
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 injection	det
27	injection	injection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stitches	conj
28	against	against	ADP	_	29 germs	case
29	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 injection	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 patted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pat	past	a boy in Ohio	a dog		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer
2	tie	participle		a dog not said here	outside a shop	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bite	past	the frightened dog	dog's hand		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	need	past	boy	stitches and a injection against germs		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.lesson:22.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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