Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 11

Cats are hunters by instinct; bringing prey home may be sharing or showing off, and a bell on the collar can warn birds and mice.

Who acts: Cats, bringing, bell · What happens: be, bring, share, show off, warn · To what, where: hunters, prey, birds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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 (Cats, bringing, bell), 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunters	cop
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 instinct	case
5	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunters	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 warn	punct
7	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sharing	csubj
8	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bringing	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 prey	advmod
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sharing	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sharing	aux
12	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hunters	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 showing	cc
14	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sharing	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 showing	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 warn	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bell	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bell	det
19	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 warn	nsubj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 collar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 collar	det
22	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bell	nmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 warn	aux
24	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hunters	parataxis
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 warn	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mice	cc
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 birds	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunters	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cats	hunters		by instinct	tree rules
2	bring	gerund		prey			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
3	share	may · progressive	bringing				tree rules
4	show off	gerund	bringing not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	warn speech: warn	can	a bell on the collar		birds and mice		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:11.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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