Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 13
Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.
Who acts: Real farm cats, useful mousers · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: useful mousers, mice
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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 farm cats, useful mousers), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cats | amod |
| 2 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cats | compound |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mousers | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mousers | cop |
| 5 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mousers | amod |
| 6 | mousers | mouser | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mousers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rats | cc |
| 11 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mice | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 keep | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 barns | case |
| 14 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 away | obl |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 barns | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 grain | case |
| 17 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mousers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Real farm cats | useful mousers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | useful mousers | mice and rats | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:13.
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): 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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