Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 14
Dogs sometimes catch yawns from people, more often from their own owners.
Who acts: Dogs · What happens: catch · To what, where: yawns
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), 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 | 3 catch | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 3 catch | advmod |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yawns | yawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catch | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catch | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 owners | punct |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 often | advmod |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 owners | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 owners | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 owners | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 owners | amod |
| 13 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 people | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | Dogs | yawns | from people and Dogs's own owners; sometimes property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme from people=Source |
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:14.
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): no change. 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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