A pet is a responsibility, sentence 1
Good owners think from the animal's side: a new home, a new baby, a strange house or a vet visit can feel scary to an animal, so they go slowly and calmly.
Who acts: Good owners, new home, home · What happens: think, feel, go · To what, where: side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A pet is a responsibility» 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 owners, new home, home), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 owners | amod |
| 2 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 animal | case |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 feel | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 baby | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 baby | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 baby | amod |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 home | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 house | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 home | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 visit | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 visit | det |
| 23 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 visit | compound |
| 24 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | conj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 feel | aux |
| 26 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 27 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feel | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 animal | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 animal | det |
| 30 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 scary | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 feel | parataxis |
| 35 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 calmly | cc |
| 37 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 35 slowly | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Good owners | the animal's side | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | can | a new home and a new baby and a strange house or a vet visit | scary property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | present | home | slowly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:065-a-pet-is-a-responsibility.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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