Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 2
Think of Tom chasing Jerry: real cats do hunt mice, but a real mouse would rather nibble seeds than a wedge of holey cheese.
Who acts: you, Tom, real cats, real mouse · What happens: think, chase, hunt, nibble · To what, where: Jerry, mice, seeds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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 (you, Tom, real cats, real mouse), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Tom | case |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 4 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Tom | acl |
| 5 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chasing | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunt | punct |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cats | amod |
| 8 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hunt | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunt | aux |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 11 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hunt | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nibble | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 nibble | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mouse | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouse | amod |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nibble | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 nibble | aux |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 nibble | advmod |
| 19 | nibble | nibble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hunt | conj |
| 20 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nibble | obj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 wedge | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wedge | det |
| 23 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nibble | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cheese | case |
| 25 | holey | holey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cheese | amod |
| 26 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wedge | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of Tom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chase | gerund | Tom not said here | Jerry | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present · do-support | real cats | mice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | nibble | would | a real mouse | seeds | than a wedge of holey cheese | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.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 ×1, R7-rel-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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