Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 6

A family in California got a pet turtle; their little boy kissed it and later became ill with Salmonella, a germ many reptiles carry.

Who acts: family, little boy, many reptiles · What happens: get, kiss, become, carry · To what, where: pet turtle, turtle, germ

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, little boy, many reptiles), 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 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 California	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 turtle	det
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turtle	compound
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 kissed	punct
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 boy	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kissed	nsubj
13	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kissed	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 became	advmod
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kissed	conj
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 Salmonella	case
20	Salmonella	Salmonella	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ill	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 germ	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 germ	det
23	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Salmonella	appos
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reptiles	amod
25	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carry	nsubj
26	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 germ	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	a family in California	a pet turtle		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus
2	kiss	past	lamp's little boy	turtle		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
3	become	past	lamp's little boy not said here		ill, late property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	carry	present	many reptiles	a germ not said here		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:6.

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 ×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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