Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 2
Rats are clever and careful: offered a new food, a rat nibbles a tiny bit and waits to see whether it feels ill, and in experiments rats have freed a trapped friend even when there was chocolate on offer.
Who acts: Rats, rat, food, chocolate · What happens: be, offer, nibble, wait, see, feel · To what, where: new food, tiny bit, trapped friend, experiments · 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, rat, food, chocolate), 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 clever | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clever | cop |
| 3 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 careful | cc |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clever | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 offered | punct |
| 7 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clever | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 food | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 food | amod |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nibbles | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rat | det |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nibbles | nsubj |
| 14 | nibbles | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clever | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bit | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bit | amod |
| 17 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nibbles | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 waits | cc |
| 19 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nibbles | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 waits | advcl |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 feels | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 feels | nsubj |
| 24 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | ccomp |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feels | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 freed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 freed | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 experiments | case |
| 29 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 freed | obl |
| 30 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 freed | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 freed | aux |
| 32 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 clever | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 friend | det |
| 34 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 friend | amod |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 freed | obj |
| 36 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 was | advmod |
| 37 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 39 was | mark |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 was | expl |
| 39 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 freed | advcl |
| 40 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 was | nsubj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 offer | case |
| 42 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 chocolate | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clever | 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 | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Rats not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | offer | past | Rats not said here | a new food | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 4 | nibble | present | a rat | a tiny bit | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wait | present | a rat not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | a rat not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | feel | present | food | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | free | present · perfect | rats | a trapped friend | experiments | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer friend=Source | |||
| 9 | trap | participle | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | be | past | chocolate on offer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:2.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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