Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 17
Dogs learn routines and read tiny signs, like shoes picked up or a coat touched, so they seem to know when it is time for a walk.
Who acts: Dogs, tiny signs, coat · What happens: learn, read, pick up, touch, seem, know · To what, where: routines, tiny signs, shoes, coat, time · 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, tiny signs, coat), 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 | 2 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | routines | routine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learn | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 read | cc |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 learn | conj |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 signs | amod |
| 7 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 picked | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 picked | mark |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 signs | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picked | compound:prt |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 touched | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 coat | det |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 picked | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seem | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 seem | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seem | nsubj |
| 20 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 learn | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seem | xcomp |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 time | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 time | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 time | cop |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | ccomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 walk | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 walk | det |
| 29 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 time | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | 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 | learn | present | Dogs | routines | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent routine=Topic | ||||
| 2 | read | present | Dogs not said here | tiny signs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pick up | participle · passive | tiny signs not said here | shoes | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | touch | participle · passive | a coat | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 5 | seem | present | Dogs = dog | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | know | to-infinitive | Dogs = dog not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | coat | time | for a walk | 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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:17.
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, R8-pos-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.
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