Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 10
Cattle cannot see red the way we do, and a bull charges a matador's cape (the cloth a bullfighter waves) because it moves, not because it is red.
Who acts: Cattle, we, bull, bullfighter · What happens: not see, do, charge, wave, move, not be · To what, where: way, cape, cloth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» 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 (Cattle, we, bull, bullfighter), 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 | Cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 charges | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 charges | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bull | det |
| 13 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 charges | nsubj |
| 14 | charges | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 matador | det |
| 16 | matador | matador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cape | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 matador | case |
| 18 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 charges | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 waves | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cloth | det |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waves | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bullfighter | det |
| 23 | bullfighter | bullfighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waves | nsubj |
| 24 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 charges | conj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 waves | punct |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 moves | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 moves | nsubj |
| 28 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 charges | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 red | punct |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 red | advmod |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 red | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 red | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 red | cop |
| 34 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 moves | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | 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 | not see | can | Cattle | the way | red property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | do | present | we | the way not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | charge | present | a bull | a matador's cape | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cape=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wave | present | a bullfighter | the cloth | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | ||||
| 5 | move | present | bullfighter | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not is | present | bullfighter | red property | 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:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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