The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 15
Vets often make a clay paw print or keep a lock of fur so families have a keepsake.
Who acts: Vets, families · What happens: make, keep, have · To what, where: paw print, lock, keepsake
This is a sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» 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 (Vets, 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 | Vets | vet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 print | det |
| 5 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paw | compound |
| 6 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 print | compound |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj | ||
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 keep | cc |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lock | det |
| 11 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fur | case |
| 13 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lock | nmod |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 keepsake | det |
| 18 | keepsake | keepsake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | infinitive | Vets | a paw print | often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset print=Product | |||
| 2 | keep | present | Vets not said here | a lock of fur | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | families | a keepsake | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keepsake=Patient |
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:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.lesson:15.
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): 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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