Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 18
A dog that is not walked may have an accident in the house, because it cannot wait forever.
Who acts: dog, accident · What happens: not walk, have, not wait · To what, where: dog, accident, house
This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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, accident), 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 | 8 have | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 walked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 walked | advmod |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dog | acl:relcl |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 accident | det |
| 10 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accident | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 wait | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wait | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wait | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wait | advmod |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | advcl |
| 20 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 19 wait | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk | present · passive | a dog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | have | may | a dog | a accident | the house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient | |||
| 3 | not wait | can | accident | forever property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:18.
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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