A pet is a responsibility, sentence 16
In play, a pet should catch the toy sometimes, because always losing makes animals stressed or snappy.
Who acts: pet, losing · What happens: catch, lose, make · To what, where: toy, play, animals
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, losing), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 play | case |
| 2 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pet | det |
| 5 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | aux |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 toy | det |
| 9 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obj |
| 10 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 catch | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 makes | mark |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 losing | advmod |
| 14 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 makes | csubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | advcl |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | stressed | stress | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 snappy | cc |
| 19 | snappy | snappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stressed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | should | a pet | the toy | play | sometimes property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme | ||
| 2 | lose | gerund | always property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | losing | animals | stress property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product |
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:16.
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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