The pet that loves you most, sentence 15
Sam's dog Scout slips out of a gate left open and Sam searches for hours with a torch until a neighbour finds him two streets away.
Who acts: dog Scout, Sam, neighbour · What happens: slip out, leave, search, find · To what, where: gate, Scout
This is a sentence of the lesson «The pet that loves you most» 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 Scout, Sam, neighbour), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Scout | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Scout | compound |
| 4 | Scout | scout | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slips | nsubj |
| 5 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slips | obl |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gate | acl |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 left | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 searches | cc |
| 13 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 searches | nsubj |
| 14 | searches | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slips | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hours | case |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 searches | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 torch | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 torch | det |
| 19 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 searches | obl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 finds | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 neighbour | det |
| 22 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finds | nsubj |
| 23 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 searches | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 finds | obj |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 streets | nummod |
| 26 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 finds | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 streets | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slips | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip out | present | Sam's dog Scout | a gate | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a gate not said here | open property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | search | present | Sam | hour | with a torch | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | find | present | a neighbour | Scout | two streets obl:unmarked | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:15.
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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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