Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 6

Dogs and cats raised together, or introduced slowly, can become real friends; the idea that they always fight is not true.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: raise, introduce, become, fight, not be · To what, where: Dogs, real friends, idea

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 (Dogs), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cats	cc
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dogs	conj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Dogs	acl
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 raised	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 introduced	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 introduced	cc
8	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 raised	conj
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 introduced	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 friends	amod
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 idea	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 idea	det
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friends	appos
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fight	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fight	nsubj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 fight	advmod
21	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 idea	acl:relcl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 true	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 true	advmod
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fight	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise	participle		Dogs and cats not said here	together property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	introduce	participle			slowly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	become	can	Dogs and cats	real friends		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	fight	present	dogs = dog	the idea not said here	always property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Co-Agent
5	not is	present	dogs = dog not said here		true property	tree rules

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: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): no change. 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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