Cats and dogs up close, sentence 16

The litter box is scooped every day and hands are washed after, because cat droppings can carry germs such as toxoplasma; pregnant women should not clean it.

Who acts: cat droppings, pregnant women · What happens: scoop, wash, carry, not clean · To what, where: litter box, hands, germs, box

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (cat droppings, pregnant women), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scooped	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scooped	aux:pass
5	scooped	scoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scooped	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 washed	cc
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 washed	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 washed	aux:pass
11	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scooped	conj
12	after	after	ADV	_	11 washed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 carry	mark
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 droppings	compound
16	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 washed	advcl
19	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	obj
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	22 toxoplasma	case
21	as	as	ADP	_	20 such	fixed
22	toxoplasma	toxoplasma	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 germs	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 clean	punct
24	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 women	amod
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 clean	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 clean	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 clean	advmod
28	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scooped	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 clean	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 scooped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scoop	present · passive		the litter box	day		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme
2	wash	present · passive		hands		after property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	carry	can	cat droppings	germs		such toxoplasma	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
4	not clean	should	pregnant women	box			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:16.

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. 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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