Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 15

Cats climb up trees easily but find coming down hard, because all their claws point the wrong way for going down head-first.

Who acts: Cats, claws, wrong way · What happens: climb up, find, come down, point, go down · To what, where: trees, wrong way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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 (Cats, claws, wrong way), 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 climb	nsubj
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 climb	compound:prt
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climb	obj
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	2 climb	advmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 find	cc
7	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	conj
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 find	xcomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 coming	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 coming	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 point	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 point	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 claws	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 claws	nmod:poss
15	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 point	nsubj
16	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 point	obj
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 going	mark
21	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 way	acl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 going	compound:prt
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 first	obl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 head	punct
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 going	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climb	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb up	present	Cats	trees	easily property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	find	present	Cats not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come down	gerund	Cats not said here		down, hard property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	point	present	dogs's claws	the wrong way		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	go down	gerund	the wrong way not said here		first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:15.

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. 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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