Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 10

Many dogs eat grass when they are perfectly healthy, and scientists aren't sure why; if a dog seems unwell, ask a vet.

Who acts: Many dogs, Cats, scientists, dog · What happens: eat, be, not be, seem, ask · To what, where: grass, vet

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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 (Many dogs, Cats, scientists, dog), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 healthy	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 healthy	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 healthy	cop
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	9 healthy	advmod
9	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sure	cc
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sure	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	cop
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sure	advmod
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 healthy	conj
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 sure	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seems	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 seems	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seems	nsubj
21	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ask	advcl
22	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seems	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 vet	det
26	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Many dogs	grass		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	is	present	Cats = cat		healthy, perfectly property	tree rules
3	not is	present	scientists		sure property	tree rules
4	seem a condition, not said to happen	present	a dog		unwell property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive		a vet		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient

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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-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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