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Thinking like an animal, sentence 1

Hunters such as dogs and cats chase what runs and pounce on what moves, so a running child or a fluttering hand can switch on the chase, while a still, quiet person switches it off.

Who acts: Hunters, quiet person · What happens: chase, run, pounce, move, flutter, switch · To what, where: chase

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (Hunters, quiet person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjcasefixednmodccconjnsubjobjccconjcasensubjoblpunctadvmoddetamodparataxisccdetamodconjauxconjcasedetoblpunctmarkdetadvmodpunctamodnsubjadvclobjcompound:prtpunctrootHuntersNOUNsuchADJasADPdogsNOUNandCCONJcatsNOUNchaseVERBwhatPRONrunsVERBandCCONJpounceVERBonADPwhatPRONmovesVERB,PUNCTsoADVaDETrunningVERBchildNOUNorCCONJaDETflutteringVERBhandNOUNcanAUXswitchVERBonADPtheDETchaseNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJaDETstillADV,PUNCTquietADJpersonNOUNswitchesVERBitPRONoffADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HuntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur7 chasensubj
2suchsuchADJDegree=Pos ExtPos=ADP4 dogscase
3asasADP_2 suchfixed
4dogsdogNOUNNumber=Plur1 Huntersnmod
5andandCCONJ_6 catscc
6catscatNOUNNumber=Plur4 dogsconj
7chasechaseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8whatwhatPRONPronType=Int9 runsnsubj
9runsrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 chaseobj
10andandCCONJ_11 pouncecc
11pouncepounceVERBMood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 runsconj
12ononADP_14 movescase
13whatwhatPRONPronType=Int14 movesnsubj
14movesmoveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 pounceobl
15,,PUNCT_19 childpunct
16sosoADV_19 childadvmod
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 childdet
18runningrunVERBVerbForm=Ger19 childamod
19childchildNOUNNumber=Sing7 chaseparataxis
20ororCCONJ_25 switchcc
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 handdet
22flutteringflutterVERBVerbForm=Ger23 handamod
23handhandNOUNNumber=Sing19 childconj
24cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin25 switchaux
25switchswitchVERBVerbForm=Inf19 childconj
26ononADP_28 chasecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 chasedet
28chasechaseNOUNNumber=Sing25 switchobl
29,,PUNCT_36 switchespunct
30whilewhileSCONJ_36 switchesmark
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 persondet
32stillstillADV_34 quietadvmod
33,,PUNCT_32 stillpunct
34quietquietADJDegree=Pos35 personamod
35personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing36 switchesnsubj
36switchesswitchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 switchadvcl
37ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 switchesobj
38offoffADP_36 switchescompound:prt
39..PUNCT_7 chasepunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1chasepresentHunters such dogs and catsvn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2runpresentvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3pouncepresentvn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4movepresentvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5rungerundvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6fluttergerundvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7switchcanHunters such dogs and cats not said herethe chasevn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8switch offpresenta quiet personchasevn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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