Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 2
Mia's dad: "I could get 8 out of 10 cats to prefer a sock if they were hungry enough."
Who acts: nobody, cats · What happens: get, prefer, be · To what, where: 8 cats, sock
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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 (nobody, cats), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dad | appos |
| 9 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 cats | nummod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 10 | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 10 | case |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 8 | nmod |
| 13 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 prefer | mark |
| 15 | prefer | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sock | det |
| 17 | sock | sock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prefer | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 hungry | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hungry | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hungry | cop |
| 21 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prefer | advcl |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 hungry | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dad | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dad | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | could | nobody | 8 cats | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | prefer in a quote | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | a sock | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sock=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | cats = cat | enough, 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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:2.
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.
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