Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 15
With "neither ... nor", the verb agrees with the closer subject: "Neither the cat nor the dogs are hungry."
Who acts: verb, cat · What happens: agree, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (verb, cat), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 neither | case |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 neither | punct |
| 3 | neither | neither | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agrees | obl |
| 4 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 5 nor | punct |
| 5 | nor | nor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 neither | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 nor | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 neither | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 verb | det |
| 9 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agrees | nsubj |
| 10 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 subject | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 subject | det |
| 13 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 subject | amod |
| 14 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agrees | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 agrees | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 hungry | punct |
| 17 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 cat | cc:preconj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cat | det |
| 19 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hungry | nsubj |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 dogs | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dogs | det |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cat | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hungry | cop |
| 24 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 agrees | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 hungry | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 hungry | 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 | agree speech: agree | present | the verb | with neither; with the closer subject | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with neither=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the cat nor the dogs | hungry property | 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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.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. 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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