Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 9
A big Great Dane standing on its back legs can be taller than a grown man, and big dogs often live shorter lives than small dogs.
Who acts: big Great Dane, big dogs · What happens: stand, be, grow, live · To what, where: back legs, shorter lives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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 (big Great Dane, big dogs), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Dane | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dane | amod |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dane | amod |
| 4 | Dane | dane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taller | nsubj |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Dane | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 legs | compound |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 standing | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 taller | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 taller | cop |
| 12 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taller | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 live | cc |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dogs | amod |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 live | nsubj |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 taller | conj |
| 23 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 lives | amod |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 live | obj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 dogs | case |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dogs | amod |
| 27 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lives | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 taller | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | a big Great Dane not said here | size's back legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | can | a big Great Dane | than a grown man; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | live | present | big dogs | shorter lives | than small dogs; often property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.lesson:9.
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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