Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 17
A rat or a mouse has four legs, a long tail and two pairs of long front teeth, one pair on top and one below.
Who acts: rat · What happens: have · To what, where: four legs
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 (rat), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rat | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 mouse | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rat | conj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tail | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tail | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tail | amod |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legs | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pairs | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pairs | nummod |
| 15 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 legs | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 teeth | case |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teeth | amod |
| 18 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teeth | amod |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pairs | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pair | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 pair | nummod |
| 22 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teeth | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pair | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 one | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 pair | conj |
| 27 | below | below | ADV | _ | 26 one | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a rat or a mouse | four legs and a long tail and two pairs of long front teeth and one pair on top | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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:17.
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): no change. 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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