Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 2
A rabbit is a gentle animal with a fragile back and teeth that never stop growing; it needs hay to chew, space to hop and a rabbit friend to live with.
Who acts: rabbit, fragile back · What happens: be, not stop, grow, need, chew, hop · To what, where: gentle animal, hay
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 (rabbit, fragile back), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 animal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 animal | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animal | amod |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 back | det |
| 9 | fragile | fragile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 back | amod |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 animal | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 teeth | cc |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 back | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 stop | advmod |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 back | acl:relcl |
| 16 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stop | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 needs | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 needs | nsubj |
| 19 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 animal | parataxis |
| 20 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 needs | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 chew | mark |
| 22 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hay | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 space | punct |
| 24 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hay | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hop | mark |
| 26 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 space | acl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 friend | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 friend | det |
| 29 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 friend | compound |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 space | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 live | mark |
| 32 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 friend | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 live | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 animal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rabbit | a gentle animal | with a fragile back and teeth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not stop | present | a fragile back and teeth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | a fragile back and teeth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | need | present | rabbit | hay and space and a rabbit friend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hay=Theme | ||||
| 5 | chew | to-infinitive | rabbit not said here | hay and space and a rabbit friend not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | hop | to-infinitive | rabbit not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | live | to-infinitive | rabbit not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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