Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 0
A pet cat is a small hunter that lives on your sofa, and almost everything about its body is built for creeping up on prey in dim light.
Who acts: pet cat, small hunter · What happens: be, live, build, creep up · To what, where: small hunter, sofa, everything, prey
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» 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 (pet cat, small hunter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | compound |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunter | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunter | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hunter | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hunter | amod |
| 7 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sofa | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sofa | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 built | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 built | cc |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 everything | advmod |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 built | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 everything | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 built | aux:pass |
| 21 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hunter | conj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 creeping | mark |
| 23 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 built | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 creeping | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 prey | case |
| 26 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 creeping | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 light | case |
| 28 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 light | amod |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 creeping | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pet cat | a small hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | a small hunter | your sofa | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sofa=Location | ||||
| 3 | build | present · passive | everything | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | creep up | gerund | prey | in dim light | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prey=Trajectory |
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:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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