The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 13
Big cats are kept behind strong mesh, thick glass or a wide ditch called a moat, and keepers never go in with them.
Who acts: wide ditch, keepers · What happens: keep, call, not go in · To what, where: Big cats, strong mesh, moat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wide ditch, keepers), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 mesh | case |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mesh | amod |
| 7 | mesh | mesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glass | punct |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 glass | amod |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mesh | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 ditch | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ditch | det |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ditch | amod |
| 14 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mesh | conj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ditch | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moat | det |
| 17 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 20 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 go | advmod |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | Big cats | strong mesh and thick glass or a wide ditch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind mesh=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a wide ditch not said here | a moat | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not go in | present | keepers | with mesh | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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