The pet that loves you most, sentence 33

Cats sometimes bring dead mice or birds as «presents»; an adult should remove them with gloves or a bag, and the cat should not be punished.

Who acts: Cats, adult · What happens: bring, remove, not punish · To what, where: dead mice, Pets, cat

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 (Cats, 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mice	amod
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 birds	cc
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mice	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 presents	case
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 presents	punct
10	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 presents	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 remove	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remove	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 remove	aux
16	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bring	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remove	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 gloves	case
19	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 remove	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 bag	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bag	det
22	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gloves	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 punished	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 punished	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cat	det
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 punished	nsubj:pass
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 punished	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 punished	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 punished	aux:pass
30	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 remove	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bring	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Cats		dead mice or birds	as presents; sometimes property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination
2	remove	should	a adult	Pets = pet		with gloves or a bag	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	not punish	should · passive		the cat			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:33.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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