The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 14
There are about 40 kinds of wild cats, and most are small, like the swamp-hunting fishing cat with slightly webbed feet and the desert sand cat, whose hairy paws stop its feet burning on hot sand.
Who acts: 40 kinds, most, hairy paws, feet · What happens: be about, be, web, stop, burn · To what, where: feet, hot sand
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 (40 kinds, most, hairy paws, feet), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 40 | advmod |
| 4 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 kinds | nummod |
| 5 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cats | case |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cats | amod |
| 8 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 small | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 small | cc |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 small | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 small | cop |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 are | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cat | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 cat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cat | det |
| 17 | swamp | swamp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hunting | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 swamp | punct |
| 19 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cat | compound |
| 20 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cat | compound |
| 21 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 small | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 23 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 24 webbed | advmod |
| 24 | webbed | web | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 feet | amod |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cat | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cat | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cat | det |
| 28 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cat | compound |
| 29 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cat | compound |
| 30 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cat | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stop | punct |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 34 paws | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 paws | amod |
| 34 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stop | nsubj |
| 35 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 cat | acl:relcl |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 feet | nmod:poss |
| 37 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stop | obj |
| 38 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 feet | acl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 sand | case |
| 40 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sand | amod |
| 41 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 burning | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be about | present | 40 kinds of wild cats | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | most | like the hunting fishing cat with webbed feet and the desert sand cat; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | web | participle | slightly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stop | present | hairy paws | cat's feet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality foot=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | cat's feet not said here | hot sand | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location |
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:14.
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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