Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 5
Growls, puffed fur and arched backs are warnings that help animals avoid a real fight, and animals that live together soon settle into house rules, just as Tom and Spike make a deal.
Who acts: Growls, backs, warnings, animals, Tom · What happens: puff, arch, be, help, avoid, live together · To what, where: fur, warnings, animals, real fight, house rules, deal
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 (Growls, backs, warnings, animals), 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 | Growls | growl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 puffed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 puffed | punct |
| 3 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puffed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 arched | cc |
| 6 | arched | arch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puffed | conj |
| 7 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warnings | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 warnings | cop |
| 9 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 arched | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 help | nsubj |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 warnings | acl:relcl |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fight | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fight | amod |
| 16 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 avoid | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 animals | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 animals | cc |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warnings | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 live | nsubj |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 animals | acl:relcl |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 live | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | _ | 24 settle | advmod |
| 24 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 live | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 rules | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rules | compound |
| 27 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 settle | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Tom | punct |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 make | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 31 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 make | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Spike | cc |
| 33 | Spike | spike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Tom | conj |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 settle | advcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 deal | det |
| 36 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 warnings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff | participle | Growls | fur | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Source | ||||
| 2 | arch | past | Growls not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | backs | warnings and animals | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | present | warnings and animals | animals | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | avoid | present | animals not said here | a real fight | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fight=Location | ||||
| 6 | live together | present | animals | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | settle | infinitive | animals not said here | house rules | soon property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | make | present | Tom and Spike | a deal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Product |
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:5.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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