Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 18
Scientists found rats make high chirps when tickled, too high for us to hear without a detector, and chase the tickling hand for more; young rats also love to play fight.
Who acts: Scientists, rats, us, young rats · What happens: find, make, tickle, hear, chase, love · To what, where: high chirps, tickling hand, fight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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 (Scientists, rats, us, young rats), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | ccomp |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chirps | amod |
| 6 | chirps | chirp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 tickled | advmod |
| 8 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chirps | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tickled | conj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 hear | mark |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hear | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hear | mark |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 high | advcl |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 detector | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 detector | det |
| 18 | detector | detector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hear | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 chase | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 chase | cc |
| 21 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hand | det |
| 23 | tickling | tickle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 hand | amod |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chase | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 more | case |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 chase | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 love | punct |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rats | amod |
| 29 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 love | nsubj |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 love | advmod |
| 31 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 play | mark |
| 33 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 love | xcomp |
| 34 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 play | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Scientists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | rats | high chirps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chirp=Product | ||||
| 3 | tickle | participle | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | us | without a detector | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | chase | infinitive | rats not said here | the tickling hand | for more | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 6 | tickle | gerund | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | love | present | young rats | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | young rats not said here | fight | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme |
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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:18.
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): R6-punct-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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