When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 8
Flushing a dead fish can spread illness to wild fish, and many families prefer to bury a pet in the garden.
Who acts: Flushing, many families · What happens: flush, spread, prefer, bury · To what, where: dead fish, illness, pet, garden
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 (Flushing, many families), 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 | Flushing | flush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 spread | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flushing | obj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | aux |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fish | case |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fish | amod |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prefer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prefer | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 families | amod |
| 14 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prefer | nsubj |
| 15 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bury | mark |
| 17 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prefer | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pet | det |
| 19 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bury | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bury | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flush | gerund | a dead fish | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Source | |||||
| 2 | spread | can | Flushing | illness | to wild fish | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location illness=Theme | |||
| 3 | prefer | present | many families | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bury not said to happen | to-infinitive | many families not said here | a pet | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pet=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:8.
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. 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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