Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 13
Gentle brushing in the direction the fur grows removes loose hair and lets you check for ticks and lumps; a tick is a tiny blood-sucking bug that clings to the skin and feels like a small round lump.
Who acts: fur, you, tick, tiny sucking bug · What happens: brush, grow, remove, let, check, suck · To what, where: direction, loose hair, you, tiny sucking bug
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 (fur, you, tick, tiny sucking bug), 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 | Gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brushing | amod |
| 2 | brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 removes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 direction | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 direction | det |
| 5 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brushing | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fur | det |
| 7 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 direction | acl:relcl |
| 9 | removes | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hair | amod |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 removes | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lets | cc |
| 13 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 removes | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 lets | obj |
| 15 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lets | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ticks | case |
| 17 | ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 check | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lumps | cc |
| 19 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ticks | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 bug | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tick | det |
| 22 | tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bug | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bug | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bug | det |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bug | amod |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sucking | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 blood | punct |
| 28 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 bug | amod |
| 29 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 removes | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 clings | nsubj |
| 31 | clings | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bug | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 skin | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 skin | det |
| 34 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 clings | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 feels | cc |
| 36 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 clings | conj |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 lump | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 lump | det |
| 39 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 lump | amod |
| 40 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lump | compound |
| 41 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feels | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 removes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | gerund | the direction | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in direction=Destination | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | the fur | the direction not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remove | present | loose hair | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | check | infinitive | you not said here | for ticks and lumps | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for tick=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | suck | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is a | present | a tick | a tiny sucking bug | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | cling | present | a tiny sucking bug | to the skin | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to skin=Co-Theme | ||||
| 9 | feel | present | a tiny sucking bug not said here | like a small round lump | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like lump=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:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:13.
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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