Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 4

A boy in Colorado whose dog has died makes a drawing of the dog chasing snow, puts it on the fridge, and when he misses her he looks at it and tells his mum one of his favourite memories.

Who acts: dog, boy · What happens: die, make, chase, put, miss, look · To what, where: drawing, snow, fridge, dog, one, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (dog, boy), 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	9 makes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Colorado	case
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 dog	nmod:poss
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 boy	acl:relcl
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 drawing	det
11	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 snow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drawing	nmod
15	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dog	acl
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chasing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 puts	punct
18	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 puts	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 fridge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fridge	det
22	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 puts	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 misses	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 misses	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 misses	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 misses	nsubj
27	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 misses	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looks	nsubj
30	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looks	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tells	cc
34	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 looks	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mum	nmod:poss
36	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tells	iobj
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 tells	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 memories	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 memories	nmod:poss
40	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 memories	amod
41	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present · perfect	dog					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	make	present	a boy in Colorado	a drawing the dog				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Product
3	chase	gerund	the dog not said here	snow				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme
4	put	present	a boy in Colorado not said here	snow		the fridge		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fridge=Destination
5	miss	present	boy	dog				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer her=Stimulus
6	look	present	boy				at fridge	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	present	boy not said here	one of boy's favourite memories	boy's mum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient one=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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-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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