The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 9
Walking the same line again and again is called pacing; it can mean a cat is bored, and good zoos change the enclosure and give puzzles to reduce it.
Who acts: Walking, it, cat, good zoos · What happens: walk, call, mean, be, change, give · To what, where: same line, pacing, enclosure, puzzles, cat · 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 (Walking, it, cat, good zoos), 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 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 called | csubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 line | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 line | amod |
| 4 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 again | cc |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 again | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | pacing | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | aux |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 called | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cat | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bored | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bored | cop |
| 18 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 change | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 change | cc |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 zoos | amod |
| 22 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 change | nsubj |
| 23 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enclosure | det |
| 25 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 change | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 give | cc |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 change | conj |
| 28 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 give | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 reduce | mark |
| 30 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 give | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reduce | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | the same line | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Walking | pacing | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | mean | can | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a cat | bored property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | change | present | good zoos | the enclosure | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enclosure=Patient | ||||
| 6 | give | present | good zoos not said here | puzzles | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Theme | ||||
| 7 | reduce | to-infinitive | good zoos not said here | cat | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Patient |
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: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, R8-pos-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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