Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 4
For example, a cat that "left a present" on the doormat may have brought in a dead mouse.
Who acts: cat · What happens: leave, bring · To what, where: present, doormat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms 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 (cat), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 left | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cat | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 present | det |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 present | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 doormat | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doormat | det |
| 14 | doormat | doormat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mouse | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mouse | det |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mouse | amod |
| 21 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | 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 | leave in a quote | past | a cat | a present | the doormat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent present=Theme on doormat=Location | |||
| 2 | bring | may · perfect | a cat | for example; in a dead mouse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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:euphemisms:018-pets-and-money.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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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