A pet is a responsibility, sentence 6
A family in Ohio got a puppy for Christmas, but nobody walked or trained it; it chewed the house, grew bored and anxious, and had to go to a rescue home.
Who acts: family, nobody · What happens: get, walk, train, chew, grow, have · To what, where: puppy, family, house, rescue home
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, nobody), 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 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 puppy | det |
| 7 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Christmas | case |
| 9 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 walked | cc |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 walked | nsubj |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 trained | cc |
| 15 | trained | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walked | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trained | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 chewed | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 chewed | nsubj |
| 19 | chewed | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chewed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chewed | conj |
| 24 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 anxious | cc |
| 26 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bored | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 had | cc |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chewed | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 go | mark |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 had | xcomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 home | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 home | det |
| 34 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 home | compound |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 go | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a family in Ohio | a puppy | for Christmas | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme for christmas=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | walk | past | nobody | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | train | past | nobody not said here | family | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chew | past | family | the house | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | family not said here | bored property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | family not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | family not said here | a rescue home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location |
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:6.
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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