Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real, sentence 21

Cartoonists often draw four fingers because it is quicker and looks neater, while a real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all.

Who acts: Cartoonists, video, real cat · What happens: draw, be, have · To what, where: four fingers, five toes, front paw

This is a sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» 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 (Cartoonists, video, real cat), 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	Cartoonists	cartoonist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 draw	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 draw	advmod
3	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fingers	nummod
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 draw	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 looks	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looks	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 looks	cop
9	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 looks	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looks	cc
11	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	advcl
12	neater	neat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 looks	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 has	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cat	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cat	amod
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	advcl
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 toes	nummod
20	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 has	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 paw	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 paw	det
23	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 paw	amod
24	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 toes	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 paw	cc
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 toes	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 paw	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 paw	det
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 paw	compound
30	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 paw	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eighteen	punct
32	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 toes	appos
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 eighteen	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	present	Cartoonists	four fingers		often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
2	is	present	video			look, neat, quick property	tree rules
3	have	present	a real cat	five toes	each front paw and each back paw		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient

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:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:21.

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): R5-strong ×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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