The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 3
It is just what your kitten does with a box or a ball of string, because play and searching are practice for hunting, only a tiger's ball must be huge and tough.
Who acts: lion, kitten, play, ball · What happens: be, do · To what, where: practice
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 (lion, kitten, play, ball), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kitten | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 ball | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ball | det |
| 13 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 box | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 string | case |
| 15 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ball | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 practice | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 practice | mark |
| 18 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 practice | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 searching | cc |
| 20 | searching | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 play | conj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 practice | cop |
| 22 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | appos |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 hunting | case |
| 24 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 practice | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 huge | punct |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 ball | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tiger | det |
| 28 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ball | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 tiger | case |
| 30 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 huge | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 huge | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 huge | cop |
| 33 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 what | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tough | cc |
| 35 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 huge | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | 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 | is a | present | lion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | your kitten | with a box or a ball of string | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | play and searching | practice | for hunting | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | must | a tiger's ball | huge property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | a tiger's ball not said here | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/3/