Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 23
An overweight pet gets ill more often and lives a shorter life, so it needs fewer treats and more play.
Who acts: overweight pet, pet · What happens: get, live, need · To what, where: shorter life, fewer treats
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 (overweight pet, pet), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pet | det |
| 2 | overweight | overweight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pet | amod |
| 3 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 often | advmod |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 gets | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lives | cc |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 needs | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 needs | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 needs | nsubj |
| 16 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 17 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 treats | amod |
| 18 | treats | treat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 needs | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 play | cc |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 play | amod |
| 21 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 treats | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a overweight pet | ill, often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live | present | a overweight pet not said here | a shorter life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 3 | need | present | pet | fewer treats and more play | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treat=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:23.
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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