Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 5

Real dogs cannot talk like Scooby Doo, because their mouths and brains are not built for speech, though Scooby is a real breed, the Great Dane.

Who acts: Real dogs, Scooby · What happens: not talk, not build, be · To what, where: mouths, real breed

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 dogs, Scooby), 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 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 Doo	case
7	Scooby	Scooby	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Doo	compound
8	Doo	Doo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 built	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouths	nmod:poss
12	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 built	nsubj:pass
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brains	cc
14	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mouths	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 built	aux:pass
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 built	advmod
17	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 talk	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 speech	case
19	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 built	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 built	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 breed	mark
22	Scooby	Scooby	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 breed	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 breed	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 breed	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 breed	amod
26	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 built	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Dane	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Dane	det
29	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Dane	amod
30	Dane	dane	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 breed	appos
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not talk	can	Real dogs		like Scooby Doo	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not build	present · passive		dogs's mouths and brains	for speech	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for speech=Asset
3	is a	present	Scooby	a real breed		tree rules

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:5.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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