Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 6
Dogs follow human pointing very well, even as puppies, while wolves and chimpanzees find it hard.
Who acts: Dogs, wolves · What happens: follow, find · To what, where: human pointing, pointing
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, wolves), 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 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pointing | amod |
| 4 | pointing | pointing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 follow | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 follow | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 puppies | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 puppies | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 puppies | case |
| 10 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 13 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 find | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chimpanzees | cc |
| 15 | chimpanzees | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wolves | conj |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 follow | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 find | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | 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 | follow | present | Dogs | human pointing | as puppies; well property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent pointing=Theme as puppy=Value | |||
| 2 | find | present | wolves and chimpanzees | pointing | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:6.
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. 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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