Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 5

Most grown-up cats cannot digest milk well, and it can upset their tummies, so a real cat needs a bowl of water instead.

Who acts: Most grown cats, cat, real cat · What happens: grow up, not digest, upset, need · To what, where: milk, tummies, bowl

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 grown cats, cat, real cat), 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	5 cats	amod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cats	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 grown	compound:prt
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 digest	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 digest	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 digest	advmod
8	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digest	obj
10	well	well	ADV	_	8 digest	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 upset	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 upset	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 upset	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 upset	aux
15	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 digest	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tummies	nmod:poss
17	tummies	tummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 upset	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 needs	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 needs	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cat	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cat	amod
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needs	nsubj
23	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 digest	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bowl	det
25	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needs	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 water	case
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bowl	nmod
28	instead	instead	ADV	_	23 needs	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 digest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not digest	can	Most grown cats	milk	well property	tree rules
3	upset	can	cat	Tom's tummies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer
4	need	present	a real cat	a bowl of water	instead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bowl=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:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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