Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 11

If a family really cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through an animal shelter; abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law.

Who acts: family, Animals, abandoning · What happens: not keep, find, abandon, be · To what, where: pet, new home, animal shelter

This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» 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 (family, Animals, abandoning), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 keep	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 family	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 keep	advmod
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 find	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pet	det
9	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
12	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 home	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 home	amod
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
17	through	through	ADP	_	20 shelter	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shelter	det
19	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shelter	compound
20	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 cruel	punct
22	abandoning	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 cruel	csubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pet	det
24	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 abandoning	obj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cruel	cop
26	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 find	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 law	cc
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 law	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 law	det
30	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cruel	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not keep a condition, not said to happen	can	a family	a pet				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme
2	find	present	Animals = animal	a new home	pet	a animal shelter		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute
3	abandon	gerund		a pet				vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme pet=Source
4	is	present	abandoning				cruel property	tree rules

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:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:11.

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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