Being gentle with small animals, sentence 19
A girl in Canada picked up her hamster by squeezing it tight; it panicked, bit her finger and fell to the floor, hurting its leg.
Who acts: girl, pet · What happens: pick up, squeeze, panic, bite, fall, hurt · To what, where: hamster, pet, finger, leg
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 (girl, 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Canada | case |
| 4 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hamster | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picked | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 squeezing | mark |
| 10 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 picked | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 squeezing | obj |
| 12 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 10 squeezing | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 panicked | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 panicked | nsubj |
| 15 | panicked | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 picked | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bit | punct |
| 17 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 panicked | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 finger | nmod:poss |
| 19 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bit | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 panicked | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 floor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 floor | det |
| 24 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurting | punct |
| 26 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fell | advcl |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 leg | nmod:poss |
| 28 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hurting | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | a girl in Canada | girl's hamster | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Topic | ||||
| 2 | squeeze | gerund | a girl in Canada not said here | pet | tight property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | panic | past | pet | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bite | past | pet not said here | girl's finger | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | pet not said here | to the floor | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to floor=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hurt | gerund | pet not said here | pet's leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient |
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:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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