Cats and dogs up close, sentence 14
A kitten should play with a wand toy, not your fingers, or it learns that hands are toys and bites harder when grown.
Who acts: kitten, hands · What happens: play, learn, be, grow · To what, where: fingers, toys · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (kitten, hands), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kitten | det |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 toy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 toy | det |
| 7 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toy | compound |
| 8 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fingers | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fingers | advmod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 learns | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 learns | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 learns | nsubj |
| 16 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 toys | mark |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 toys | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 toys | cop |
| 20 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 learns | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bites | cc |
| 22 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 toys | conj |
| 23 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 bites | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 grown | advmod |
| 25 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 harder | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | 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 | play | should | a kitten | your fingers | with a wand toy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with toy=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | present | kitten | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | hands | toys and bites | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | participle | hands not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:14.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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