A pet is a responsibility, sentence 9
A new pet needs a quiet place and a few days to settle, because moving house is scary for animals.
Who acts: new pet, moving · What happens: need, settle, move, be · To what, where: quiet place, house
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 (new pet, moving), 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 | 3 pet | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pet | amod |
| 3 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 days | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 days | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 place | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 settle | mark |
| 13 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 days | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scary | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 scary | mark |
| 16 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 scary | csubj |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moving | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 scary | cop |
| 19 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 needs | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 animals | case |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scary | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | 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 | a new pet | a quiet place and a few days | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | settle | to-infinitive | a new pet not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | move | gerund | house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | moving | for animals; scary property | tree rules |
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:9.
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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