Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 7
A girl in Australia's parents bought a parrot without knowing it could live for decades and scream for hours when bored; within a year they had to find it a new home.
Who acts: girl, parrot, Reptiles · What happens: buy, know, live, scream, have, find · To what, where: parrot · 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 (girl, parrot, 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 parents | case |
| 4 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Australia | case |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 girl | nmod |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 parrot | det |
| 9 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | obj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 knowing | mark |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bought | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 decades | case |
| 16 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 live | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scream | cc |
| 18 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 live | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 hours | case |
| 20 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scream | obl |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 bored | advmod |
| 22 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scream | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bought | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 find | mark |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 find | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 home | det |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 home | amod |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | a girl in Australia's parents | a parrot | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | a girl in Australia's parents not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | live | could | parrot | decade | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | infinitive | parrot not said here | hour | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Reptiles = reptile | year | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | Reptiles = reptile not said here | parrot | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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