scat

Who acts: Scat, animal, Miss, they, mice, cat · What happens: be, make, go, shoo, dash off, say · To what, where: shout, animal, scat · Speech: someone speaks here

«scat» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: scat in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

«Scat!» is a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Scat	punct
2	Scat	scat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shout	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Scat	punct
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Scat	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shout	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shout	det
7	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shout	acl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 pest	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pest	det
14	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	conj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 shoo	punct
19	shoo	shoo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 shout	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Scat	a shout		tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive		a animal or a pest		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	a animal or a pest not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shoo	infinitive				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

Meaning 2

To scat is to run away quickly, to dash off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scat	mark
2	scat	scat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	advcl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 run	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dash	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dash	mark
10	dash	dash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 run	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 dash	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						away, quickly, run property	tree rules
2	dash off	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 1

Scat, you cat!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scat	scat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cat	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cat	compound
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scat	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Scat	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 2

When Miss Rabbit said «scat», they scatted.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 said	advmod
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Miss	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scatted	advcl
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 scat	punct
6	scat	scat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 scat	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scatted	nsubj
10	scatted	scat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 scatted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Miss	scat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scat=Topic
2	scat	past	they						tree rules

Example 3

The mice scatted off the table when the cat came.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scatted	nsubj
3	scatted	scat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scatted	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scatted	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scatted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scat	past	the mice					off the table	tree rules
2	come	past	the cat						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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