Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 3

Cartoons show Jerry the mouse stealing cheese, but real mice prefer seeds, grain and sweet things, and every small pet needs daily care, not just a cage in a corner.

Who acts: Cartoons, mouse, real mice, small pet · What happens: show, stealing, prefer, need · To what, where: mouse, Jerry, cheese, seeds, daily care

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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, mouse, real mice, small pet), 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	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 show	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
6	stealing	stealing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mouse	acl
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stealing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prefer	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 prefer	cc
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mice	amod
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 prefer	nsubj
12	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	conj
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 prefer	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grain	punct
15	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeds	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 things	cc
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grain	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 needs	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 needs	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 pet	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pet	amod
23	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 needs	nsubj
24	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	conj
25	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 care	amod
26	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 needs	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cage	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 cage	advmod
29	just	just	ADV	_	31 cage	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cage	det
31	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 care	appos
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 corner	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 corner	det
34	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cage	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons	the mouse	Jerry	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Recipient mouse=Topic
2	stealing	gerund	the mouse not said here	cheese		tree rules
3	prefer	present	real mice	seeds and grain and sweet things		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus
4	need	present	every small pet	daily care		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:3.

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, 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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