Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 0
The cat on your sofa is a tiny cousin of the leopard: the same soft paws, sharp claws, whiskers and night-shining eyes, the same creeping, pouncing hunter inside.
Who acts: cat · What happens: be, shine, creep, pounce · To what, where: tiny cousin, creeping hunter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 (cat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cousin | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sofa | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sofa | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cat | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cousin | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cousin | det |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cousin | amod |
| 9 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 leopard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leopard | det |
| 12 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cousin | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 paws | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 paws | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 paws | amod |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 paws | amod |
| 17 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leopard | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 claws | punct |
| 19 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 claws | amod |
| 20 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 paws | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whiskers | punct |
| 22 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 paws | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 eyes | cc |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 night | punct |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 paws | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 creeping | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 creeping | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 creeping | amod |
| 31 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 hunter | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pouncing | punct |
| 33 | pouncing | pounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 paws | conj |
| 34 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pouncing | obj |
| 35 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 34 hunter | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cousin | 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 | the cat on your sofa | a tiny cousin | of the leopard | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pounce | gerund | the cat on your sofa not said here | creeping hunter | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hunter=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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): R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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