Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 15
Cats scratch to keep their claws in good shape and to leave scent from glands in their paws; a scratching post near the spot they like can save the sofa.
Who acts: Cats, pupils, scratching post · What happens: scratch, keep, leave, like, save · To what, where: claws, good shape, scent, glands, spot, sofa
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, pupils, scratching post), 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 scratch | nsubj |
| 2 | scratch | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 scratch | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 claws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shape | case |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shape | amod |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leave | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | conj |
| 13 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 glands | case |
| 15 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 scent | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 paws | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paws | nmod:poss |
| 18 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 glands | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 scratch | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 post | det |
| 21 | scratching | scratching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 post | compound |
| 22 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 save | nsubj |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spot | det |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 post | nmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 spot | acl:relcl |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 save | aux |
| 29 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 scratch | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sofa | det |
| 31 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 save | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present | Cats | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Cats not said here | pupils's claws | good shape | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent claw=Theme in shape=Location | |||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Cats not said here | scent | glands in pupils's paws | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme scent=Source from gland=Destination | |||
| 4 | like | present | pupils = pupil | the spot not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spot=Theme | ||||
| 5 | save | can | a scratching post near the spot | the sofa | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sofa=Theme |
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:15.
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): 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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