Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 10
Rats are cautious with new food: they nibble a little and wait to see whether they feel ill.
Who acts: Rats · What happens: be, nibble, wait, see, feel · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse 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 (Rats), 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 | Rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cautious | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cautious | cop |
| 3 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 food | amod |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cautious | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 nibble | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nibble | nsubj |
| 9 | nibble | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cautious | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nibble | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wait | cc |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nibble | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wait | advcl |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 feel | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cautious | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rats | with new food; cautious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nibble | present | rats = rat | a little | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | present | rats = rat not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | rats = rat not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | rats = rat | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-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 ×1, R8-pos-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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