Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 0
In Tom and Jerry, Spike the bulldog chases Tom up trees and guards his puppy Tyke, and it looks as if cats and dogs are born enemies.
Who acts: Spike, it · What happens: chase, guard, look, bear · To what, where: Tom, puppy, cats
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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 (Spike, it), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Tom | case |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chases | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Jerry | cc |
| 4 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tom | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tom | punct |
| 6 | Spike | spike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chases | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bulldog | det |
| 8 | bulldog | bulldog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chases | nsubj |
| 9 | chases | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chases | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chases | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 guards | cc |
| 14 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chases | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 puppy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guards | obj |
| 17 | Tyke | tyke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guards | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looks | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looks | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looks | nsubj |
| 21 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chases | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 if | fixed |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 born | mark |
| 24 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 born | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dogs | cc |
| 26 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cats | conj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 born | aux:pass |
| 28 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 looks | advcl |
| 29 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 born | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 chases | 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 | chase | present | Spike | Tom | Tom and Jerry | tree rules | |||
| 2 | guard | present | Spike not said here | bulldog's puppy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bear a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | cats and dogs | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:0.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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