Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 0
Cartoons and old sayings are full of animals doing things real animals never do: an elephant leaps onto a chair at the sight of a mouse, an ostrich hides its head in the sand, a snake hypnotises a rabbit with its stare.
Who acts: Cartoons, animals, real animals, elephant, ostrich, snake · What happens: be, do, not do, leap, hide, hypnotise · To what, where: things, chair, head, sand, rabbit, mouse
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 (Cartoons, animals, real animals, elephant), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sayings | cc |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sayings | amod |
| 4 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cartoons | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | cop |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 animals | case |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 animals | acl |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 doing | obj |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 animals | amod |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 elephant | det |
| 17 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaps | nsubj |
| 18 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | parataxis |
| 19 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 21 chair | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chair | det |
| 21 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaps | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaps | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mouse | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mouse | det |
| 27 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hides | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ostrich | det |
| 30 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hides | nsubj |
| 31 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | conj |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hides | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 sand | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sand | det |
| 36 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hides | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hypnotises | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 snake | det |
| 39 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hypnotises | nsubj |
| 40 | hypnotises | hypnotise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 rabbit | det |
| 42 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hypnotises | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 stare | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 stare | nmod:poss |
| 45 | stare | stare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hypnotises | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cartoons and old sayings | of animals; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | animals not said here | things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not do | present | real animals | things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | leap | present | a elephant | a chair | at the sight of a mouse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chair=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | hide | present | a ostrich | ostrich's head | the sand | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient in sand=Location | |||
| 6 | hypnotise | present | a snake | a rabbit | with ostrich's stare | tree rules | |||
| 7 | sight | a mouse | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | stare | ostrich | nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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