Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 1
In "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen" there are three nouns: cat, mat and kitchen; "the" is a pointer word, "sat" is the doing word, and "on" and "in" show where.
Who acts: cat, three nouns, the, word sat · What happens: sit, be, do · To what, where: mat, pointer word, doing word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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 (cat, three nouns, the, word sat), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 38 word | case |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 word | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mat | det |
| 8 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 kitchen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kitchen | det |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 nouns | nummod |
| 16 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 are | nsubj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 cat | punct |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nouns | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mat | punct |
| 20 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cat | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kitchen | cc |
| 22 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cat | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 sat | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 the | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 word | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 the | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 word | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 word | det |
| 29 | pointer | pointer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 word | compound |
| 30 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sat | compound |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 word | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 sat | punct |
| 33 | sat | sat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 sat | punct |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 word | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 word | det |
| 37 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 word | amod |
| 38 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 are | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 on | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 on | cc |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 on | punct |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 show | case |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 on | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 show | cc |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 in | punct |
| 46 | in | in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 show | compound |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 in | punct |
| 48 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | nmod |
| 49 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 show | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 where | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | past | the cat | the mat | in the kitchen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location | |||
| 2 | does | present | three nouns | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the | a pointer word | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | word sat | the doing word | on in show | 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:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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