Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 19
Pets should not lick your mouth or face, because animals' mouths carry germs.
Who acts: Pets, mouths · What happens: not lick, carry · To what, where: mouth, germs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (Pets, mouths), 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 | Pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lick | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lick | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lick | advmod |
| 4 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lick | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 face | cc |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mouth | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 13 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lick | advcl |
| 15 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lick | should | Pets | your mouth or face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mouth=Source | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | animals's mouths | germs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:19.
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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