Thinking about noticing, sentence 7
Dogs can hear high-pitched sounds that people cannot hear.
Who acts: Dogs, people · What happens: hear, pitch, not hear · To what, where: high pitched sounds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday 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 (Dogs, people), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sounds | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 high | punct |
| 6 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sounds | amod |
| 7 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hear | obj |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hear | advmod |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sounds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | can | Dogs | high pitched sounds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pitch | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not hear | can | people | high pitched sounds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:7.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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