Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 1
Its whiskers are feelers that tell it whether a gap is wide enough, its eyes shine in headlights because a mirror layer inside them catches every bit of light, and its tongue is a comb.
Who acts: whiskers, feelers, gap, eyes, mirror layer, tongue · What happens: be, tell, shine, catch · To what, where: feelers, hunter, headlights, bit, comb · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whiskers, feelers, gap, eyes), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feelers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feelers | cop |
| 4 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feelers | acl:relcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | obj |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 wide | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gap | det |
| 10 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wide | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wide | cop |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 wide | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shine | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shine | nsubj |
| 17 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 headlights | case |
| 19 | headlights | headlight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shine | obl |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 catches | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 layer | det |
| 22 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 layer | compound |
| 23 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 catches | nsubj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 layer | nmod |
| 26 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shine | advcl |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 bit | det |
| 28 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 catches | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 light | case |
| 30 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bit | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 comb | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 comb | cc |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 34 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 comb | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 comb | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 comb | det |
| 37 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feelers | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feelers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hunter's whiskers | feelers and a comb | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | feelers and a comb | hunter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a gap | enough, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | present | hunter's eyes | headlights | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in headlight=Location | ||||
| 5 | catch | present | a mirror layer inside eyes | every bit of light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | hunter's tongue | a comb | tree rules |
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:1.
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): no change. 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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