Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 16

In tests, dogs pushed and snapped at a toy dog their owner petted, but not at a bucket, which suggests a simple kind of jealousy.

Who acts: dogs, owner, bucket · What happens: push, snap, pet, suggest · To what, where: tests, toy dog, simple kind

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, owner, bucket), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 tests	case
2	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pushed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tests	punct
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pushed	nsubj
5	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 snapped	cc
7	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pushed	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 dog	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
10	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	compound
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snapped	obl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 owner	nmod:poss
13	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 petted	nsubj
14	petted	pet	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dog	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bucket	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 bucket	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 bucket	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 bucket	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bucket	det
20	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushed	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 suggests	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 suggests	nsubj
23	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bucket	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 kind	det
25	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kind	amod
26	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 suggests	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 jealousy	case
28	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kind	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	past	dogs		tests		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in test=Trajectory
2	snap	past	dogs not said here			at a toy dog	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dog=Location
3	pet	past	Dogs's owner	a toy dog not said here			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent
4	suggest speech: suggest	present	a bucket	a simple kind of jealousy			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kind=Topic

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:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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