How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 17
Children often wrongly blame themselves when a pet dies; most pets die of old age or illness.
Who acts: Children, pet, most pets · What happens: blame, die · To what, where: Children
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 (Children, pet, most pets), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blame | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 blame | advmod |
| 3 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 4 blame | advmod |
| 4 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 blame | obj |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 dies | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pet | det |
| 8 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dies | nsubj |
| 9 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blame | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 pets | amod |
| 12 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 die | nsubj |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dies | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 age | amod |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 illness | cc |
| 18 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 age | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present | Children | Children = child | often, wrongly property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | present | a pet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | die | present | most pets | of old age or illness | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer |
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:17.
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 ×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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