Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 4
Tickled rats make very high chirps, too high for us to hear without special equipment, and come back for more.
Who acts: Tickled rats, us · What happens: tickle, make, hear, come back · To what, where: high chirps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (Tickled rats, us), 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 | Tickled | tickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rats | amod |
| 2 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chirps | amod |
| 6 | chirps | chirp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 high | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 high | advmod |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chirps | amod |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 hear | mark |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hear | mark |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 high | advcl |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 equipment | case |
| 15 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 equipment | amod |
| 16 | equipment | equipment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hear | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 more | case |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | 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 | tickle | participle | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | Tickled rats | high chirps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chirp=Product | ||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | us | without special equipment | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come back | infinitive | Tickled rats not said here | for more | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:4.
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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