Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 1
Each wild cat has its own speciality: the leopard is the strong climber that drags its meal up a tree, the jaguar has the crushing bite that cracks turtle shells, and the cheetah is the sprinter, the fastest runner on land.
Who acts: wild cat, leopard, strong climber, jaguar, crushing bite, cheetah · What happens: have, be, drag up, crush, crack · To what, where: own speciality, strong climber, meal, crushing bite, turtle shells, sprinter
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 (wild cat, leopard, strong climber, 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 speciality | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speciality | amod |
| 7 | speciality | speciality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 climber | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 leopard | det |
| 10 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climber | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 climber | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 climber | det |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 climber | amod |
| 14 | climber | climber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speciality | appos |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 drags | nsubj |
| 16 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 climber | acl:relcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 meal | nmod:poss |
| 18 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drags | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 drags | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drags | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 has | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 jaguar | det |
| 24 | jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 drags | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bite | det |
| 27 | crushing | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 bite | amod |
| 28 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 cracks | nsubj |
| 30 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bite | acl:relcl |
| 31 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shells | compound |
| 32 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cracks | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sprinter | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 sprinter | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cheetah | det |
| 36 | cheetah | cheetah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sprinter | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 sprinter | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sprinter | det |
| 39 | sprinter | sprinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speciality | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 runner | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 runner | det |
| 42 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 runner | amod |
| 43 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sprinter | appos |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 land | case |
| 45 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 runner | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | 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 | have | present | each wild cat | cat's own speciality and the sprinter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speciality=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the leopard | the strong climber | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drag up | present | the strong climber | cat's meal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the jaguar | the crushing bite | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient | ||||
| 5 | crush | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | crack | present | the crushing bite | turtle shells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | the cheetah | the sprinter | tree rules |
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:1.
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.
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