The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 20
Wild cats moved into the first farming villages about 10,000 years ago to hunt the mice in the grain stores, and they stayed more independent than dogs: that is the true heart of «the Cat that walked by himself».
Who acts: Wild cats, cats, that, Cat · What happens: move, hunt, stay, be, walk · To what, where: first farming villages, mice, grain stores, true heart
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (Wild cats, cats, that, 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 villages | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 villages | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 villages | amod |
| 7 | farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 villages | compound |
| 8 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 10,000 | advmod |
| 10 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 moved | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hunt | mark |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 moved | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mice | det |
| 16 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hunt | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 stores | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stores | det |
| 19 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stores | compound |
| 20 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hunt | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stayed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stayed | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stayed | nsubj |
| 24 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moved | conj |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 independent | advmod |
| 26 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stayed | xcomp |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 dogs | case |
| 28 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 independent | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 heart | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 heart | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 heart | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 heart | det |
| 33 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 heart | amod |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stayed | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Cat | case |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 38 Cat | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Cat | det |
| 38 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 heart | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 walked | nsubj |
| 40 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 Cat | acl:relcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 himself | case |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 walked | obl |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 stayed | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | 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 | move | past | Wild cats | the first farming villages | ago property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into village=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | Wild cats not said here | the mice | the grain stores | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in store=Location | |||
| 3 | stay | past | cats = cat | independent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the true heart | of the Cat | tree rules | |||
| 5 | walk in a quote | past | the Cat | by zebra | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory |
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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:20.
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 ×3. 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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