Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 4
To understand an animal, look at the whole picture, and ask the owner or a vet.
Who acts: you · What happens: understand, look, ask · To what, where: animal, owner
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 understand | mark |
| 2 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 look | advcl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 understand | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 picture | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 picture | amod |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 owner | det |
| 15 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 vet | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 vet | det |
| 18 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owner | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | to-infinitive | you not said here | a animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | at the whole picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | the owner or a vet | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |
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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:4.
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, 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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