The pet that loves you most, sentence 20
Connor's family can't keep Bruno any more, with a new baby and a tiny flat, so Bruno goes to a friend's farm; Connor visits twice a year and Bruno goes wild with joy every time.
Who acts: family, Bruno, Connor · What happens: not keep, go, visit · To what, where: Bruno, farm
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 (family, Bruno, Connor), 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 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Connor | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 keep | advmod |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Bruno | Bruno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 keep | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 baby | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 baby | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 baby | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 baby | amod |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flat | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flat | det |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flat | amod |
| 18 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 baby | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 goes | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 goes | advmod |
| 21 | Bruno | Bruno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 goes | nsubj |
| 22 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 farm | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 friend | det |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 farm | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 27 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 goes | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 visits | punct |
| 29 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 visits | nsubj |
| 30 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 goes | conj |
| 31 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 year | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 year | det |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 visits | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 goes | cc |
| 35 | Bruno | Bruno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 goes | nsubj |
| 36 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 visits | conj |
| 37 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 goes | xcomp |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 joy | case |
| 39 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 goes | obl |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 time | det |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | can | Connor's family | Bruno | with a new baby and a tiny flat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruno=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | present | Bruno | a friend's farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | visit | present | Connor | year | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | present | Bruno | time | with joy; wild property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with joy=Beneficiary |
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:20.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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