Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 11
In experiments, rats opened a cage to free another trapped rat, even when they could have eaten chocolate instead.
Who acts: rats · What happens: open, free, trap, eat · To what, where: cage, experiments, trapped rat, chocolate
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 experiments | case |
| 2 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 experiments | punct |
| 4 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cage | det |
| 7 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 free | mark |
| 9 | free | free | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 opened | advcl |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 rat | det |
| 11 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rat | amod |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 free | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eaten | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 eaten | advmod |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 eaten | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 eaten | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 eaten | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eaten | aux |
| 19 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 opened | advcl |
| 20 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eaten | obj |
| 21 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 19 eaten | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | 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 | open | past | rats | a cage | experiments | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme in experiment=Location | |||
| 2 | free | to-infinitive | rats not said here | another trapped rat | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer rat=Source | ||||
| 3 | trap | participle | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | eat | could · perfect | rats = rat | chocolate | instead property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient |
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:11.
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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