The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 18
Some animals say they like you in odd small ways.
Who acts: animals · What happens: say, like · To what, where: you, odd small ways · 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 (animals), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ways | case |
| 8 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ways | amod |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ways | amod |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | 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 | say speech: assert | present | some animals | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like | present | animals = animal | you | odd small ways | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
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:18.
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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