Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 17
Every pet needs daily care: cats need food, water, a litter tray and visits to the vet.
Who acts: pet, cats · What happens: need · To what, where: daily care, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the world 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 (pet, cats), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 pet | det |
| 2 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 care | amod |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needs | parataxis |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 food | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tray | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tray | det |
| 14 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tray | compound |
| 15 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 visits | cc |
| 17 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tray | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 vet | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vet | det |
| 20 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visits | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | every pet | daily care | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | cats | food and water | tree rules |
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:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:17.
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): 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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