Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 4
And the cartoon elephant that screams and jumps on a chair at the sight of a mouse?
Who acts: cartoon elephant · What happens: scream, jump, sight · To what, where: chair, mouse
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 (cartoon elephant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 elephant | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elephant | compound |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 screams | nsubj |
| 6 | screams | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 elephant | acl:relcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 jumps | cc |
| 8 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 screams | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 chair | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chair | det |
| 11 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumps | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chair | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mouse | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mouse | det |
| 17 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sight | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 elephant | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | present | the cartoon elephant | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jump | present | the cartoon elephant not said here | a chair at the sight of a mouse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chair=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | sight | a mouse | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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:4.
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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