Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 13

Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well, because they lose most of the body chemical that breaks it down after they stop feeding from their mother, so milk can give them diarrhoea; they need water.

Who acts: Most adult cats, animators, body chemical, milk · What happens: not digest, lose, break down, stop, feed, give · To what, where: milk sugar, most, cat, diarrhoea, animators, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology 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 (Most adult cats, animators, body chemical, milk), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 cats	amod
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cats	amod
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 digest	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 digest	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 digest	advmod
6	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sugar	compound
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 digest	obj
9	well	well	ADV	_	6 digest	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lose	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 lose	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lose	nsubj
13	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 digest	advcl
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 lose	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 chemical	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chemical	det
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chemical	compound
18	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 most	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 breaks	nsubj
20	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 chemical	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 breaks	obj
22	down	down	ADP	_	20 breaks	compound:prt
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 stop	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stop	nsubj
25	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 breaks	advcl
26	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 stop	xcomp
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 mother	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeding	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 give	advmod
32	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 digest	parataxis
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	diarrhoea	diarrhoea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 need	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 need	nsubj
39	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 digest	conj
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 need	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 digest	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not digest	can	Most adult cats	milk sugar		well property	tree rules
2	lose	present	animators = animator	most of the body chemical			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
3	break down	present	the body chemical	cat			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	stop	present	animators = animator				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	feed	gerund	animators = animator not said here			from animators's mother	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	give	can	milk	diarrhoea	animators = animator		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient diarrhoea=Theme
7	need	present	animators = animator	water			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

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:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.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): 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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