Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 11
A real animal hit with a frying pan or squashed flat would be badly hurt; bodies cannot be flattened and pop back into shape the way cartoon animators draw them.
Who acts: cartoon animators · What happens: hit, squash, hurt, not flatten, pop back, draw · To what, where: real animal, bodies, way, shape
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» 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 (cartoon animators), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 animal | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pan | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pan | det |
| 7 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pan | compound |
| 8 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hit | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 squashed | cc |
| 10 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pan | conj |
| 11 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 10 squashed | advmod |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hurt | aux:pass |
| 14 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 flattened | punct |
| 17 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flattened | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 flattened | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 flattened | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 flattened | aux:pass |
| 21 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hurt | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pop | cc |
| 23 | pop | pop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 flattened | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 pop | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 shape | case |
| 26 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pop | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pop | obl |
| 29 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 animators | compound |
| 30 | animators | animator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 draw | nsubj |
| 31 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 way | acl:relcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 draw | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | participle | a real animal not said here | with a frying pan | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with pan=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | squash | participle | flat property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurt | would · passive | a real animal | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not flatten | can · passive | bodies | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | pop back | infinitive | the way | into shape result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into shape=Result | ||||
| 6 | draw | present | cartoon animators | bodies = body | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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