The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 4

A big cat does not chase mice like Tom chases Jerry; a mouse is far too small to be worth the effort for a hunter that needs kilograms of meat a day.

Who acts: big cat, Tom, mouse, hunter · What happens: not chase, chase, be, need · To what, where: mice, Jerry, kilograms

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 (big cat, Tom, mouse, hunter), 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	3 cat	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chase	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chase	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 chase	advmod
6	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chase	obj
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 chases	mark
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 chases	nsubj
10	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chase	advcl
11	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 chases	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 small	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 small	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 small	cop
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 small	advmod
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 small	advmod
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chase	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 worth	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 worth	cop
21	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 small	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 effort	det
23	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worth	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 hunter	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hunter	det
26	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worth	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 needs	nsubj
28	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hunter	acl:relcl
29	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 needs	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 meat	case
31	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kilograms	nmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 needs	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 chase	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not chase	present · do-support	a big cat	mice			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	chase	present	Tom	Jerry			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme
3	is	present	a mouse			far, small property	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	a mouse not said here			for a hunter; worth property	tree rules
5	need	present	a hunter	kilograms of meat	day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kilogram=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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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