Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 13
Cats sleep about twelve to sixteen hours a day and are most active at dawn and dusk, when their prey is too.
Who acts: Cats, prey · What happens: sleep, be
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, prey), 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 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sixteen | case |
| 6 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 twelve | nmod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 active | cc |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 active | cop |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 active | advmod |
| 13 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sleep | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 dawn | case |
| 15 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 active | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dusk | cc |
| 17 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dawn | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 too | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 too | advmod |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 too | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 too | cop |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 active | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | Cats | hour | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Cats not said here | dawn | active property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | pupils's prey | too property | 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:13.
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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