The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 27
Animals can take weeks or months to trust a new person in the house, and patient daily care usually wins them over.
Who acts: Animals, patient daily care · What happens: take, trust, win over · To what, where: new person, house, animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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 (Animals, patient daily care), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 months | cc |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weeks | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 trust | mark |
| 8 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 person | amod |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trust | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trust | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wins | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wins | cc |
| 17 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 care | compound |
| 18 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 care | amod |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wins | nsubj |
| 20 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 21 wins | advmod |
| 21 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wins | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 wins | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | Animals | week | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | trust | to-infinitive | Animals not said here | a new person | the house | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | |||
| 3 | win over | present | patient daily care | animals = animal | usually property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:27.
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.
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