The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 15
Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting.
Who acts: Big cats, play · What happens: play, train, need · To what, where: young ones, moves
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 (Big cats, play), 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 | 3 play | nsubj |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 balls | case |
| 5 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ropes | punct |
| 7 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 balls | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 barrels | cc |
| 9 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 balls | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ones | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 ones | advmod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 trains | mark |
| 16 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trains | nsubj |
| 17 | trains | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moves | det |
| 19 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 trains | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 need | nsubj |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 moves | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hunting | case |
| 23 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 need | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Big cats | young ones | with balls and ropes and barrels | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=Theme | |||
| 2 | train | present | play | the moves | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | present | play | the moves not said here | for hunting | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot move=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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:15.
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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