A pet is a responsibility, sentence 11
You ask the owner before touching or feeding a friend's pet, because the owner knows how it behaves.
Who acts: You, owner, pet · What happens: ask, touch, feed, know, behave · To what, where: owner, pet · 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 (You, owner, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 owner | det |
| 4 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obj |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 touching | mark |
| 6 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ask | advcl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 feeding | cc |
| 8 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 touching | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 friend | case |
| 12 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knows | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 knows | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owner | det |
| 16 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ask | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 behaves | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 behaves | nsubj |
| 20 | behaves | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 knows | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | You | the owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | You not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | You not said here | a friend's pet | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | know | present | the owner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | behave | present | pet | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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:11.
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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