Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 13
Cats see much better than people in dim light, but they cannot see in total darkness.
Who acts: Cats, people · What happens: see, not see · To what, where: dim light, total darkness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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 (Cats, people), 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 | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 better | advmod |
| 4 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 see | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 8 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 light | amod |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 darkness | case |
| 17 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 darkness | amod |
| 18 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Cats | dim light | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not see | can | people | total darkness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:13.
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, 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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