Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 12

When you play with a pet, let it catch the toy sometimes, because play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy.

Who acts: you, pet, play · What happens: play, let, catch, end, make · To what, where: pet, toy, frustration, animals

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 (you, pet, play), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 play	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 play	nsubj
3	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	advcl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pet	det
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toy	det
12	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obj
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 catch	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 play	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 makes	mark
16	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 makes	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 ends	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 ends	advmod
19	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 play	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 frustration	case
21	frustration	frustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ends	obl
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	advcl
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 makes	obj
24	stressed	stress	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 makes	xcomp
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 snappy	cc
26	snappy	snappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stressed	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	you			with a pet	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pet=Co-Agent
2	let	imperative	you not said here	pet			tree rules
3	catch	infinitive	pet not said here	the toy		sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme
4	end	present	play		frustration	always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	make	present	play	animals		stress property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product

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: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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