Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 12
A real cat would be badly hurt by a small part of what happens to Tom; animators squash and stretch bodies because it looks lively and funny, a rule they learn by drawing a bouncing ball.
Who acts: small part, animators, cat · What happens: hurt, happen, squash, stretch, look, learn · To what, where: real cat, Tom, rule, bouncing ball
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology 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 (small part, animators, cat), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurt | aux:pass |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 hurt | advmod |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 part | amod |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurt | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 happens | mark |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happens | nsubj |
| 14 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 part | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Tom | case |
| 16 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 happens | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 squash | punct |
| 18 | animators | animator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 squash | nsubj |
| 19 | squash | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stretch | cc |
| 21 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 squash | conj |
| 22 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 squash | conj |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 looks | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looks | nsubj |
| 25 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 squash | advcl |
| 26 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 looks | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 funny | cc |
| 28 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lively | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rule | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 rule | det |
| 31 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looks | appos |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 learn | nsubj |
| 33 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 rule | acl:relcl |
| 34 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 35 drawing | mark |
| 35 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 learn | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 ball | det |
| 37 | bouncing | bounce | VERB | VerbForm=Part | 38 ball | amod |
| 38 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 drawing | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | would · passive | a small part | a real cat | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | happen | present | a small part | Tom | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | squash | present | animators | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stretch | present | animators not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | look | present | cat | lively property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | learn | present | animators = animator | a rule not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | ||||
| 7 | draw | gerund | animators = animator not said here | a bouncing ball | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bounce | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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