The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 11
Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.
Who acts: Deer, orange tiger · What happens: see, look · To what, where: fewer colours, colours
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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 (Deer, orange tiger), 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 | Deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 colours | amod |
| 4 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | obj |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looks | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 looks | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looks | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tiger | det |
| 13 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tiger | amod |
| 14 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looks | nsubj |
| 15 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | parataxis |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 looks | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 leaves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 leaves | det |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 leaves | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brown | cc |
| 21 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 green | conj |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looks | obl |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leaves | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | Deer | fewer colours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | present | a orange tiger | colours = colour | like the green leaves around Deer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=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:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.lesson:11.
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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