Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 11

Cats spend a large part of their waking time grooming, and their tongues are covered in tiny backward-pointing hooks that work like a comb.

Who acts: Cats, tiny pointing hooks · What happens: spend, groom, cover, point, work · To what, where: large part, tongues

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 (Cats, tiny pointing hooks), 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 spend	nsubj
2	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spend	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
8	waking	waking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
10	grooming	groom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spend	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 covered	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tongues	nmod:poss
14	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux:pass
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spend	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	22 hooks	case
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hooks	amod
19	backward	backward	ADV	_	22 hooks	advmod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 backward	punct
21	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 hooks	amod
22	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 work	nsubj
24	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hooks	acl:relcl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 comb	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 comb	det
27	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 work	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spend	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	present	Cats	a large part of pupils's waking time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset
2	groom	gerund	Cats not said here			vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cover	present · passive		pupils's tongues	in tiny pointing hooks	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in hook=Theme
4	point	gerund				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work	present	tiny pointing hooks		like a comb	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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, R7-rel-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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