Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 10
In bright sun a cat's pupils shrink to thin slits to let in very little light, and in the dark they open into huge circles.
Who acts: pupils · What happens: shrink, let, open · To what, where: bright sun, little light
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 (pupils), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sun | case |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sun | amod |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shrink | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 cat | case |
| 7 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shrink | nsubj |
| 8 | shrink | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 slits | case |
| 10 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 slits | amod |
| 11 | slits | slit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shrink | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 let | mark |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 slits | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 light | case |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 light | amod |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dark | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dark | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 dark | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dark | det |
| 22 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 open | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 open | nsubj |
| 24 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shrink | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 circles | case |
| 26 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 circles | amod |
| 27 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 open | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shrink | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | present | a cat's pupils | bright sun | to thin slits result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to slit=Result | |||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | a cat's pupils not said here | little light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | present | pupils = pupil | into huge circles; in the dark | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dark=Topic into circle=Recipient |
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:10.
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 ×2. 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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