Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 10
Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or rubber toy is safer to throw.
Who acts: Sticks, ball toy · What happens: splinter, stab, be, throw · To what, where: mouth
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 (Sticks, ball toy), 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 | Sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 splinter | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 splinter | aux |
| 3 | splinter | splinter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stab | cc |
| 5 | stab | stab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 splinter | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 dog | case |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stab | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 throat | cc |
| 11 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 safer | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 safer | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 toy | det |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 toy | compound |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 rubber | cc |
| 17 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ball | conj |
| 18 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 safer | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 safer | cop |
| 20 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 splinter | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 throw | mark |
| 22 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 safer | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 splinter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splinter | can | Sticks | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stab | infinitive | Sticks not said here | a dog's mouth or throat | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a ball toy | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | throw | to-infinitive | a ball toy not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:10.
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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