Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 16
Adult cats rarely meow at each other and talk to other cats mostly with smells, looks and body; they meow mostly to people, and each cat develops its own meows for its own family.
Who acts: Adult cats, pupils, cat · What happens: meow, talk, develop · To what, where: people, own meows
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 (Adult cats, pupils, cat), 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 | Adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meow | nsubj |
| 3 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 4 meow | advmod |
| 4 | meow | meow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 meow | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 talk | cc |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meow | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cats | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cats | amod |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talk | obl |
| 13 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 9 talk | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 smells | case |
| 15 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talk | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looks | punct |
| 17 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smells | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 body | cc |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looks | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 meow | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 meow | nsubj |
| 22 | meow | meow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meow | parataxis |
| 23 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 22 meow | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 meow | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 develops | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 develops | cc |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 cat | det |
| 29 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 develops | nsubj |
| 30 | develops | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meow | conj |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 meows | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 meows | amod |
| 33 | meows | meow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 develops | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 family | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 family | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 family | amod |
| 37 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 develops | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meow | present | Adult cats | at each; rarely property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at each=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | Adult cats not said here | to other cats; with smells and looks and body; mostly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cat=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | meow | present | pupils = pupil | people | mostly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | |||
| 4 | develop | present | each cat | cat's own meows | for cat's own family | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meow=Product for family=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | meow | cat | nom meow «event intransitive»: poss=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:16.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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