The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 9
Maddie's dog Pickles goes stiff around her new stepdad's deep voice and big boots, until three months of morning walks win him over.
Who acts: dog · What happens: go, win over · To what, where: deep voice, Nugget
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 (dog), 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 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maddie | case |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | Pickles | Pickles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | appos |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goes | xcomp |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stepdad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stepdad | amod |
| 10 | stepdad | stepdad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 stepdad | case |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 boots | cc |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boots | amod |
| 16 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 voice | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 win | punct |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 months | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 months | nummod |
| 20 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 win | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 walks | case |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walks | compound |
| 23 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 months | nmod |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 win | obj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 win | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Maddie's dog | dog's new stepdad's deep voice and big boots | stiff property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around voice=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | win over | present | Maddie's dog not said here | Nugget | month | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:9.
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 ×3, 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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