Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 21

A boy in Ireland took a baby rabbit from a nest in a field to keep as a pet; it was too young to eat on its own, and in two days it died even though he tried to feed it.

Who acts: boy, it, rabbit · What happens: take, keep, be, eat, die, try · To what, where: baby rabbit, nest, own, rabbit

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 (boy, it, rabbit), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rabbit	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rabbit	compound
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 nest	det
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 field	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 took	advcl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 pet	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pet	det
19	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 young	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 young	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 young	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 young	advmod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 took	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 young	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 own	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 died	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 died	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 days	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 days	nummod
34	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 died	obl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 died	nsubj
36	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
37	even	even	ADV	_	40 tried	advmod
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	40 tried	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tried	nsubj
40	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 died	advcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 feed	mark
42	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 tried	xcomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 feed	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a boy in Ireland	a baby rabbit	a nest		in a field	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme from nest=Initial_Location
2	keep	to-infinitive	a boy in Ireland not said here				as a pet	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it				young property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive			rabbit's own			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	die	past	rabbit			day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	try	past	boy					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	feed not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	rabbit				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:21.

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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