The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 12
Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy.
Who acts: Keepers, new smells · What happens: spray, give, explore · To what, where: perfume, enclosure, something, cats
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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 (Keepers, new smells), 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 | Keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spray | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 spray | advmod |
| 3 | spray | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spray | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 spices | cc |
| 6 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 perfume | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 enclosure | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 enclosure | det |
| 9 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spray | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 smells | amod |
| 13 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | nsubj |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spray | advcl |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 explore | mark |
| 18 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 something | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 toy | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 toy | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 toy | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 toy | amod |
| 23 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 explore | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spray | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spray | present | Keepers | perfume or spices | a enclosure | sometimes property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme in enclosure=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | present | new smells | something | cats | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 3 | explore | to-infinitive | new smells not said here | something not said here | like a new toy | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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