Cats and dogs up close, sentence 24

If a dog has something in its mouth it should not, you never grab it out; you swap it for a treat or get an adult.

Who acts: dog, pavement, you · What happens: have, not grab out, swap, get · To what, where: something, mouth, pavement, adult

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 (dog, pavement, you), 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	_	4 has	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 something	nmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grab	nsubj:outer
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grab	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 grab	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 not	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 grab	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 grab	advmod
15	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grab	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 grab	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 swap	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 swap	nsubj
20	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swap	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 treat	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 treat	det
24	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swap	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 get	cc
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swap	conj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 adult	det
28	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a dog	something	pavement's mouth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	not grab out	should	pavement	mouth			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	swap	present	you	pavement		for a treat	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for treat=Co-Theme
4	get	infinitive	you not said here	a adult			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus

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:24.

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): no change. 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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