Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 0
Dogs and cats share our homes, so we think we know their minds, but scientists keep finding surprises with careful tests.
Who acts: Dogs, we, scientists · What happens: share, think, know, keep, find, mind · To what, where: homes, minds, surprises · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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 (Dogs, we, scientists), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 share | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cats | cc |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dogs | conj |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 homes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 share | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 think | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 share | parataxis |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | ccomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 minds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 know | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 keep | cc |
| 17 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 share | conj |
| 19 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | surprises | surprise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 finding | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tests | case |
| 22 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tests | amod |
| 23 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 finding | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 share | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Dogs and cats | our homes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | we | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | present | we | Dogs's minds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mind=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | scientists | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | gerund | scientists not said here | surprises | with careful tests | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Topic | |||
| 6 | mind | Dogs = dog | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:0.
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 ×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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