The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 29
Some animals show they like you in small ways, like sitting on your things, rather than with big cuddles.
Who acts: animals, small ways · What happens: show, like, sit · To what, where: you, small ways, things · 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, small ways), 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 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | 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 show | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ways | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ways | amod |
| 9 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 sitting | mark |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ways | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 things | nmod:poss |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sitting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cuddles | punct |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 cuddles | cc |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 rather | fixed |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 cuddles | case |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cuddles | amod |
| 21 | cuddles | cuddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sitting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | 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 | show | present | some animals | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like | present | animals = animal | you | small ways | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | small ways not said here | your things | with big cuddles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thing=Location |
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:29.
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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