Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us, sentence 13
In the poem, a child likes his dog Binkie better than the Pussy, because Binkie is his true First Friend.
Who acts: child, Binkie · What happens: like, be · To what, where: dog, poem, true First Friend
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» of the books 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 (child, Binkie), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 poem | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poem | det |
| 3 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 likes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 poem | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 likes | nsubj |
| 7 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dog | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 likes | obj |
| 10 | Binkie | Binkie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dog | appos |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 likes | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 Pussy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pussy | det |
| 14 | Pussy | pussy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 better | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Friend | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 Friend | mark |
| 17 | Binkie | Binkie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Friend | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Friend | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Friend | amod |
| 21 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 Friend | amod |
| 22 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 likes | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 likes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | a child | child's dog | the poem | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | present | Binkie | Dog's true First Friend | 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:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:13.
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): 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/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/13/