How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 1

A sudden change in how a pet behaves is a message to tell an adult, who can take it to a vet; sudden grumpiness is often a sign of pain.

Who acts: pet, sudden change, adult, sudden grumpiness · What happens: behave, be, tell, take · To what, where: message, adult, vet, sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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, sudden change, adult, sudden grumpiness), 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 change	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	amod
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 message	nsubj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 behaves	mark
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 behaves	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pet	det
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 behaves	nsubj
8	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	acl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 message	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 message	det
11	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 message	acl
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 adult	det
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 take	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 adult	acl:relcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 vet	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 vet	det
23	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sign	punct
25	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grumpiness	amod
26	grumpiness	grumpiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sign	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sign	cop
28	often	often	ADV	_	30 sign	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sign	det
30	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 message	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 pain	case
32	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sign	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 message	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	behave	present	a pet					vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a sudden change	a message				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			a adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	take	can	a adult	adult		a vet		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to vet=Destination
5	is a	present	sudden grumpiness	a sign			of pain; often 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:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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