When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 0
When a pet dies, its body has stopped working for good: it is not sleeping, it will not swim, run or sing again, and it is almost never anyone's fault.
Who acts: pet, body · What happens: die, stop, work, not sleep, not swim, run · To what, where: fault
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (pet, body), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 dies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pet | det |
| 3 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | aux |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stopped | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 good | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 working | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 sleeping | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sleeping | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sleeping | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 sleeping | advmod |
| 17 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stopped | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 swim | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 swim | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 swim | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 swim | advmod |
| 22 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stopped | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 run | punct |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 swim | conj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 sing | cc |
| 26 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 swim | conj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 swim | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fault | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fault | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fault | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 fault | cop |
| 32 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 36 fault | advmod |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 fault | advmod |
| 34 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 fault | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 anyone | case |
| 36 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swim | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a pet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stop | present · perfect | pet's body | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | pet's body not said here | for good | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not sleep | present · progressive | body | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not swim | future | body | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run | infinitive | body not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | infinitive | body not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not is a | present | body | anyone's fault | almost property | tree rules |
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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:0.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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