When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 1
Picture Ollie coming down for breakfast to find his goldfish, Captain, floating on his side at the top of the tank; his dad tells him the truth gently, they say goodbye together, and they bury Captain in the garden.
Who acts: you, dad, they · What happens: picture, come down, find, float, tell, say · To what, where: Ollie, goldfish, side, truth, goodbye, Captain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, dad, they), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 coming | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 breakfast | case |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 coming | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 goldfish | nmod:poss |
| 10 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Captain | punct |
| 12 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 goldfish | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 floating | punct |
| 14 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 side | nmod:poss |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 floating | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 floating | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tank | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tank | det |
| 23 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 tells | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dad | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tells | nsubj |
| 27 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tells | iobj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tells | obj |
| 31 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 27 tells | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 say | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 say | nsubj |
| 34 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 35 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 say | obj |
| 36 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 say | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bury | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bury | cc |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 bury | nsubj |
| 40 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 say | parataxis |
| 41 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 bury | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 garden | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 garden | det |
| 44 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bury | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Ollie | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent ollie=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come down | gerund | you not said here | for breakfast; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | Ollie's goldfish | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Topic | ||||
| 4 | float | gerund | you not said here | Ollie's side | at the top of the tank | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Source at top=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | Ollie's dad | the truth | goldfish | gently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic | ||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | they | goodbye | together property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | |||
| 7 | bury | present | they | Captain | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captain=Theme in garden=Destination |
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:1.
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, 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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