Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 3
A dog or cat can feel jealous or scared when a new baby or a new pet arrives, so newcomers are introduced slowly, with an adult watching.
Who acts: dog, new baby, adult · What happens: feel, arrive, introduce, watch · To what, where: newcomers
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 (dog, new baby, adult), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 cat | cc |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 scared | cc |
| 9 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jealous | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 arrives | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 baby | amod |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrives | nsubj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 pet | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pet | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pet | amod |
| 17 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 baby | conj |
| 18 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 introduced | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 introduced | advmod |
| 21 | newcomers | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 introduced | aux:pass |
| 23 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 feel | parataxis |
| 24 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 23 introduced | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 watching | punct |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 29 watching | mark |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 adult | det |
| 28 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 watching | nsubj |
| 29 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 introduced | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | a dog or cat | jealous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | arrive | present | a new baby or a new pet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | introduce | present · passive | newcomers | slowly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | a adult | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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