Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 13

An adult can call the local animal shelter about a cat or dog that seems abandoned, and the shelter can find its owner or a new home.

Who acts: adult, cat, shelter · What happens: call, seem, abandon, find · To what, where: local animal shelter, owner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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 (adult, cat, shelter), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 adult	det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shelter	det
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shelter	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shelter	compound
8	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 cat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 dog	cc
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cat	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seems	nsubj
15	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cat	acl:relcl
16	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 seems	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 find	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shelter	det
20	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 call	conj
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 owner	nmod:poss
24	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 home	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 home	det
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 home	amod
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 owner	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	can	a adult	the local animal shelter	about a cat or dog	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shelter=Recipient
2	seem	present	a cat or dog			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	abandon	participle	a cat or dog not said here			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme
4	find	can	the shelter	adult's owner or a new home		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic

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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:13.

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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