Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 8
Mice prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods to cheese, so peanut butter works better in humane traps.
Who acts: Mice, peanut butter · What happens: prefer, work · To what, where: grains
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 (Mice, peanut butter), 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 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prefer | nsubj |
| 2 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prefer | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeds | punct |
| 5 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grains | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 foods | cc |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 foods | amod |
| 8 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grains | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cheese | case |
| 10 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prefer | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 works | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 works | advmod |
| 13 | peanut | peanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 butter | compound |
| 14 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 works | nsubj |
| 15 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 prefer | parataxis |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 works | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 traps | case |
| 18 | humane | humane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 traps | amod |
| 19 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 works | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | present | Mice | grains and seeds and sweet foods | to cheese | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | work | present | peanut butter | in humane traps; well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in trap=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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:8.
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 ×2. 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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