A pet is a responsibility, sentence 19
On freezing nights small animals in hutches need a sheltered place and extra bedding.
Who acts: small animals · What happens: need, shelter · To what, where: sheltered place
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 (small animals), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 nights | case |
| 2 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nights | compound |
| 3 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 need | obl |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 need | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hutches | case |
| 7 | hutches | hutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nmod |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bedding | cc |
| 13 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bedding | amod |
| 14 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | small animals in hutches | a sheltered place and extra bedding | night | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | |||
| 2 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «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:19.
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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