Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 0

Looking after a dog or a rabbit means knowing what its body needs and what can hurt it, and telling an adult quickly when something is wrong.

Who acts: Looking, body, something · What happens: look, mean, know, need, hurt, tell · To what, where: body, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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 (Looking, body, something), 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 means	csubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 dog	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 rabbit	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	conj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 means	xcomp
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 needs	obj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 knowing	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hurt	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 hurt	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hurt	aux
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 needs	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hurt	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 telling	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 telling	cc
21	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 knowing	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 adult	det
23	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 telling	obj
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	21 telling	advmod
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 wrong	mark
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 wrong	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wrong	cop
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 telling	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund				after a dog or a rabbit		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	present	Looking					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know not said to happen	gerund	Looking not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	need	present	rabbit's body					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	hurt	can		body				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
6	tell speech: assert	gerund	Looking not said here		a adult		quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
7	is	present	something				wrong property	tree rules

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:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:0.

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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