Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 4
Real cats are carnivores: they need meat, cannot live on pasta like Garfield, and cannot even taste sweet things.
Who acts: Real cats, cats · What happens: be, need, not live, not taste · To what, where: carnivores, meat, pasta, sweet things
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 (Real cats, cats), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carnivores | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carnivores | cop |
| 4 | carnivores | carnivore | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 need | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 need | nsubj |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carnivores | parataxis |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 live | advmod |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 need | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 pasta | case |
| 14 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 live | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 Garfield | case |
| 16 | Garfield | Garfield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pasta | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taste | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 taste | cc |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 taste | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 taste | advmod |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 taste | advmod |
| 22 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 live | conj |
| 23 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taste | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carnivores | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Real cats | carnivores | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | cats = cat | meat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not live | can | cats = cat not said here | pasta like Garfield | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pasta=Location | ||||
| 4 | not taste | can | cats = cat not said here | sweet things | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute |
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: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): R6-punct-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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