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 9
The Dog makes his bargain too: be kind to the Baby or be bitten.
Who acts: Dog, pot · What happens: make, be, bite, bargain · To what, where: bargain
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 (Dog, pot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dog | det |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 makes | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kind | cop |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 makes | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Baby | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Baby | det |
| 12 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 bitten | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bitten | aux:pass |
| 15 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kind | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the Dog | pot's bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | to the Baby; kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bite | infinitive · passive | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP» | ||||||
| 4 | bargain | pot | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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