A pet is a responsibility, sentence 13
If a family truly cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through a shelter; abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law in many countries.
Who acts: family, owners, abandoning · What happens: not keep, find, abandon, be · To what, where: pet, shelter
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 (family, owners, abandoning), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 7 keep | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 keep | advmod |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 find | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pet | det |
| 9 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 shelter | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shelter | det |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 cruel | punct |
| 21 | abandoning | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 cruel | csubj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pet | det |
| 23 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 abandoning | obj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cruel | cop |
| 25 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 find | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 law | cc |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 law | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 law | det |
| 29 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cruel | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 countries | case |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 countries | amod |
| 32 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 law | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep a condition, not said to happen | can | a family | a pet | truly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | present | owners = owner | pet | a shelter | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute | |||
| 3 | abandon | gerund | a pet | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme pet=Source | |||||
| 4 | is | present | abandoning | cruel property | tree rules |
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:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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