Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 3
A real mouse is tiny, about 20 grams, as heavy as four sugar cubes, runs on four legs, lives in an untidy nest of fluff inside the wall, and would choose peanut butter or chocolate over a holey wedge of cheese.
Who acts: real mouse · What happens: be, run, live, choose · To what, where: four legs, untidy nest, peanut butter, holey wedge
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 (real mouse), 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 mouse | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mouse | amod |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tiny | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiny | cop |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grams | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 20 | advmod |
| 8 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 grams | nummod |
| 9 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tiny | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heavy | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 heavy | advmod |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tiny | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 cubes | case |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cubes | nummod |
| 15 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cubes | compound |
| 16 | cubes | cube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heavy | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 runs | punct |
| 18 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiny | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 legs | case |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 legs | nummod |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 runs | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
| 23 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiny | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 nest | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 nest | det |
| 26 | untidy | untidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nest | amod |
| 27 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lives | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fluff | case |
| 29 | fluff | fluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nest | nmod |
| 30 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 32 wall | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wall | det |
| 32 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nest | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 choose | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 choose | cc |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 choose | aux |
| 36 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tiny | conj |
| 37 | peanut | peanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 butter | compound |
| 38 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 choose | obj |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 chocolate | cc |
| 40 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 butter | conj |
| 41 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 wedge | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 wedge | det |
| 43 | holey | holey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 wedge | amod |
| 44 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 choose | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 cheese | case |
| 46 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wedge | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiny | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a real mouse | 20 grams obl:unmarked; tiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a real mouse not said here | as four sugar cubes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | present | a real mouse not said here | four legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | live | present | a real mouse not said here | a untidy nest of fluff inside the wall | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | ||||
| 5 | choose | would | a real mouse not said here | peanut butter or chocolate | a holey wedge of cheese | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=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: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 ×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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