The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 13
Grandad's sheepdog Bess nips Chloe's heels, herding her like a lost lamb, until Grandad whistles her off.
Who acts: sheepdog, Grandad · What happens: nip, herd, lose, whistle off · To what, where: heels, sheepdog
This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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 (sheepdog, Grandad), 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 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sheepdog | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Grandad | case |
| 3 | sheepdog | sheepdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nips | nsubj |
| 4 | Bess | Bess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sheepdog | appos |
| 5 | nips | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heels | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Chloe | case |
| 8 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nips | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 herding | punct |
| 10 | herding | herd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 nips | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 herding | obj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 lamb | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lamb | det |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lamb | amod |
| 15 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 herding | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whistles | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 whistles | mark |
| 18 | Grandad | grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 whistles | nsubj |
| 19 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nips | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 whistles | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 whistles | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nips | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nip | present | Grandad's sheepdog | Chloe's heels | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location heel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | herd | gerund | Grandad's sheepdog not said here | sheepdog | like a lost lamb | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | whistle off | present | Grandad | sheepdog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Topic |
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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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): R5-strong ×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.
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