A pet is a responsibility, sentence 5

She gives it a quiet corner and a few days to settle before lots of cuddles, and when the family's dog meets it, an adult is always watching.

Who acts: girl, dog, adult · What happens: give, settle, meet, watch · To what, where: quiet corner, kitten

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 (girl, dog, adult), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 corner	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 corner	amod
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 days	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 days	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 corner	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 settle	mark
12	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 corner	acl
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 lots	case
14	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 settle	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 cuddles	case
16	cuddles	cuddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lots	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 meets	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 meets	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 meets	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 family	det
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dog	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 family	case
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meets	nsubj
24	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 watching	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 meets	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 watching	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 adult	det
28	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 watching	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 watching	aux
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 watching	advmod
31	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gives	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	girl	a quiet corner and a few days	kitten			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient corner=Theme
2	settle	to-infinitive	girl not said here	a quiet corner and a few days not said here		before lots of cuddles		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	meet	present	the family's dog	kitten				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
4	watch	present · progressive	a adult				always property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:5.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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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