Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 21

A pet is best got from a rescue centre or a good breeder, after learning about it; animals sold cheaply by strangers, from vans or markets, are often ill.

Who acts: good breeder, animals · What happens: get, learn, sell, be · To what, where: pet, rescue centre, animals

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 (good breeder, animals), 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 pet	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux:pass
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 centre	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 centre	det
8	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 centre	compound
9	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 breeder	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 breeder	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 breeder	amod
13	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 centre	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learning	punct
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 learning	mark
16	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 breeder	acl
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 learning	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 animals	punct
20	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ill	nsubj
21	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 animals	acl
22	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	_	21 sold	advmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 strangers	case
24	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sold	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 vans	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 vans	case
27	vans	van	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 strangers	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 markets	cc
29	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 vans	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 animals	punct
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 ill	cop
32	often	often	ADV	_	33 ill	advmod
33	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive		a pet	a rescue centre or a good breeder	well property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from centre=Source
2	learn	gerund	a good breeder not said here			about pet	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	sell	participle		animals not said here		by strangers and vans or markets; cheaply property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	animals			ill, often property	tree rules

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:21.

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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