Being gentle with small animals, sentence 17
Ask the owner before you touch someone else's pet.
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, touch · To what, where: owner, pet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small 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 (you), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owner | det |
| 3 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 touch | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 touch | nsubj |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | advcl |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 pet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 someone | advmod |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 someone | case |
| 10 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | touch | present | you | someone's pet | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pet=Co-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:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:17.
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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