Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 10

Cheetahs cannot roar; they chirp, purr and hiss, and cubs answer their mother's chirp so she can find them in the grass.

Who acts: Cheetahs, kilometres, cubs, bite, mother · What happens: not roar, chirp, purr, hiss, answer, find · To what, where: chirp, kilometres, grass

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 (Cheetahs, kilometres, cubs, bite), 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	Cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roar	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 roar	advmod
4	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 chirp	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chirp	nsubj
7	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 purr	punct
9	purr	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chirp	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hiss	cc
11	hiss	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chirp	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answer	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 answer	cc
14	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 answer	nsubj
15	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chirp	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 mother	case
19	chirp	chirp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answer	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 find	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answer	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 roar	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not roar	can	Cheetahs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	chirp	present	kilometres = kilometre			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	purr	present	kilometres = kilometre not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hiss	present	kilometres = kilometre not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	answer speech: assert	present	cubs	kilometres's mother's chirp		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chirp=Eventuality
6	find	can	bite	kilometres = kilometre	the grass	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
7	chirp		kilometres's mother			nom chirp «event 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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:10.

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 ×2, R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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