Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 6

A test on only 10 cats is far too small to say what cats in general prefer; a fair test uses many animals, chosen fairly, compared with other foods.

Who acts: test, cats, fair test · What happens: be, say, prefer, use, choose, compare · To what, where: general, many animals · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (test, cats, fair test), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 test	det
2	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 small	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 cats	case
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 10	advmod
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 cats	nummod
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 test	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 small	cop
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 small	advmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 small	advmod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 small	advcl
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 cats	det
14	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 prefer	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 general	case
16	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prefer	obl
17	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 uses	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 test	det
20	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 test	amod
21	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 uses	nsubj
22	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 small	parataxis
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 animals	amod
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 uses	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chosen	punct
26	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 animals	acl
27	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	26 chosen	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 compared	punct
29	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 animals	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 foods	case
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 foods	amod
32	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 compared	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 small	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a test on 10 cats			far, small property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a test on 10 cats not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	prefer	present	what cats		general		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	use	present	a fair test	many animals			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
5	choose	participle		many animals not said here		fairly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	compare	participle		many animals not said here		with other foods	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with food=Co-Patient

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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