When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 6
Fish often die suddenly, and often nobody can tell why.
Who acts: Fish, nobody · What happens: die, tell · 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 (Fish, nobody), 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 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 die | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 die | advmod |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 die | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 tell | advmod |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 die | conj |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 tell | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | 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 | Fish | often, suddenly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | nobody | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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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