Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 5
First his family talks about who will feed it, keep its lamp on and clean it every day for many years, and they learn what it needs before they choose one from a good place.
Who acts: family, lamp, dragon · What happens: talk, feed, keep on, clean, learn, need · To what, where: dragon, lamp, one, good place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (family, lamp, dragon), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 talks | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talks | nsubj |
| 4 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 feed | mark |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 feed | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 feed | aux |
| 8 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 talks | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feed | conj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 keep | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clean | cc |
| 16 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 clean | obj |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clean | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 years | amod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clean | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 learn | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 learn | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 learn | nsubj |
| 26 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talks | conj |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 needs | obj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 needs | nsubj |
| 29 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 learn | ccomp |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 choose | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 choose | nsubj |
| 32 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 needs | advcl |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 choose | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 place | det |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 place | amod |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 choose | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | boy's family | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feed | future | dragon | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep on | infinitive | dragon's lamp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | |||||
| 4 | clean | infinitive | dragon | day; year | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | learn | present | lamp | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | need | present | dragon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 7 | choose | present | lamp | one | a good place | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from place=Source |
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:5.
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. 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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