The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 3
In cartoons cats hate water, like Tom shaking his wet fur; the jaguar loves rivers and swims to catch caimans, a kind of crocodile, and fish.
Who acts: cats, Tom, jaguar · What happens: hate, shake, love, swim, catch · To what, where: water, cartoons, wet fur, rivers, caimans
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (cats, Tom, jaguar), 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 cartoons | case |
| 2 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hate | obl |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hate | nsubj |
| 4 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaking | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 shaking | mark |
| 8 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shaking | nsubj |
| 9 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hate | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fur | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fur | amod |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaking | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 loves | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jaguar | det |
| 15 | jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loves | nsubj |
| 16 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hate | parataxis |
| 17 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 loves | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swims | cc |
| 19 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 loves | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 catch | mark |
| 21 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 swims | advcl |
| 22 | caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 catch | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kind | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 kind | det |
| 25 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caimans | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 crocodile | case |
| 27 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kind | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fish | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fish | cc |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caimans | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | cats | water | cartoons | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | shake | gerund | Tom | Tom's wet fur | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | present | the jaguar | rivers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | swim | present | the jaguar not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | the jaguar not said here | caimans and fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caiman=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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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): 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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