Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 3

People grieve at different speeds: Tyler wants a new dog the next day, Chloe is furious when a new hamster arrives after nine days, and Ruby keeps her empty tank for months; a new pet never replaces the old one, and there is no timetable.

Who acts: People, Tyler, Chloe, new hamster, Ruby, new pet · What happens: grieve, want, be, arrive, keep, not replace · To what, where: different speeds, new dog, empty tank, old one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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 (People, Tyler, Chloe, new hamster), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grieve	nsubj
2	grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 speeds	case
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speeds	amod
5	speeds	speed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grieve	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct
7	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grieve	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 furious	punct
16	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 furious	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 furious	cop
18	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grieve	parataxis
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 arrives	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hamster	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hamster	amod
22	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arrives	nsubj
23	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 furious	advcl
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 arrives	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keeps	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 keeps	cc
29	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 keeps	nsubj
30	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grieve	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tank	nmod:poss
32	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tank	amod
33	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keeps	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 months	case
35	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 keeps	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 replaces	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 pet	det
38	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pet	amod
39	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 replaces	nsubj
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 replaces	advmod
41	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grieve	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 one	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 one	amod
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 replaces	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 is	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 is	cc
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 is	expl
48	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 replaces	conj
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 timetable	det
50	timetable	timetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 is	nsubj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	present	People		different speeds			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	want	present	Tyler	a new dog		day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme
3	is	present	Chloe				furious property	tree rules
4	arrive	present	a new hamster			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	present	Ruby	Ruby's empty tank		month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tank=Theme
6	not replace	present	a new pet	the old one				vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
7	be	present	no timetable		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:3.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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