The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 15
«Och, he's a crabbit wee thing, dinnae take it tae heart, hen,» says her auntie — crabbit is Scots for grumpy, wee for small, dinnae for don't, and hen is a friendly «love».
Who acts: Grandad, auntie, crabbit, hen · What happens: be, take, say, not do · To what, where: crabbit wee thing, thing, Scots, friendly love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Grandad, auntie, crabbit, hen), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 2 | Och | Och | INTJ | Number=Sing | 9 thing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Och | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 7 | crabbit | crabbit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 8 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 says | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 11 | dinnae | dinnae | PART | Foreign=Yes Polarity=Neg | 12 take | advmod |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | tae | tae | ADP | Foreign=Yes | 15 heart | case |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hen | punct |
| 17 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | vocative |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 auntie | nmod:poss |
| 22 | auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 says | nsubj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Scots | punct |
| 24 | crabbit | crabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Scots | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Scots | cop |
| 26 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 says | ccomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 grumpy | case |
| 28 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Scots | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wee | punct |
| 30 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crabbit | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 small | case |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wee | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dinnae | punct |
| 34 | dinnae | dinnae | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 26 Scots | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 do | case |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 dinnae | dep |
| 37 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 do | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 love | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 love | cc |
| 40 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 love | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 love | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 love | det |
| 43 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 love | amod |
| 44 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 45 love | punct |
| 45 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Scots | conj |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 45 love | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Grandad | a crabbit wee thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | thing | tae heart; hen vocative | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Bawheid's auntie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | crabbit | Scots and dinnae and a friendly love | for grumpy | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | hen | a friendly love | tree rules |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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