Cats and dogs up close, sentence 22
If a pavement is too hot for the back of your hand after a few seconds, it can burn a dog's paws.
Who acts: pavement · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: paws
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 (pavement), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 hot | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pavement | det |
| 3 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 burn | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hot | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | nmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 seconds | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 seconds | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seconds | amod |
| 16 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 back | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hot | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 burn | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 burn | aux |
| 20 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 paws | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 dog | case |
| 24 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 burn | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | a pavement | for the back of your hand after a few seconds; hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | can | pavement | a dog's paws | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paw=Theme |
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:22.
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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