Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 15

You hold a rabbit by supporting its bottom and back legs and keep it low, because a fall or a kick can break its back.

Who acts: You, fall · What happens: hold, support, keep, break · To what, where: rabbit, bottom, adult, back

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 (You, fall), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 supporting	mark
6	supporting	support	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hold	advcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bottom	nmod:poss
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supporting	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 legs	cc
10	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bottom	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 keep	cc
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hold	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obj
15	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 break	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 break	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fall	det
19	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 break	nsubj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 kick	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kick	det
22	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	conj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 break	aux
24	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 keep	advcl
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 back	nmod:poss
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 break	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	present	You	a rabbit		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
2	support	gerund	You not said here	adult's bottom and back legs		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottom=Stimulus
3	keep	present	You not said here	adult	low property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	break	can	a fall or a kick	adult's back		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient

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:15.

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): R8-pos-agree ×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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