--- title: A family in California got a pet turtle; their little boy kissed it… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: A family in California got a pet turtle; their little boy kissed it and later became ill with Salmonella, a germ many reptiles carry. Who acts: family, little boy, many reptiles. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, little boy, many reptiles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:6 # text = A family in California got a pet turtle; their little boy kissed it and later became ill with Salmonella, a germ many reptiles carry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 17 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Salmonella Salmonella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | a family in California | a pet turtle | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus | | 2 | **kiss** | past | lamp's little boy | turtle | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | lamp's little boy *not said here* | | | | | ill, late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **carry** | present | many reptiles | a germ *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/5/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)