A pet is a responsibility, sentence 14
A pet that scratches all the time may have fleas, tiny jumping bugs that leave dark specks in the fur and can bite people too.
Who acts: pet, tiny jumping bugs · What happens: scratch, have, jump, leave, bite · To what, where: fleas, dark specks, fur, people
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 (pet, tiny jumping bugs), 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 pet | det |
| 2 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 scratches | nsubj |
| 4 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pet | acl:relcl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scratches | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | fleas | flea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bugs | punct |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bugs | amod |
| 13 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 bugs | amod |
| 14 | bugs | bug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fleas | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 leave | nsubj |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bugs | acl:relcl |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 specks | amod |
| 18 | specks | speck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leave | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fur | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fur | det |
| 21 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bite | cc |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 bite | aux |
| 24 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 leave | conj |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bite | obj |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 bite | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present | a pet | time | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | may | a pet | fleas and tiny jumping bugs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | leave | present | tiny jumping bugs | dark specks | the fur | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent speck=Theme in fur=Location | |||
| 5 | bite | can | tiny jumping bugs not said here | people | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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:14.
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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