Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 2
Stroke a cat on your lap and you feel a low rumble through its body: the purr.
Who acts: you · What happens: stroke, feel · To what, where: cat, low rumble, body
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 (you), 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 | Stroke | stroke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stroke | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 lap | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lap | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stroke | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feel | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stroke | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rumble | det |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rumble | amod |
| 12 | rumble | rumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 purr | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 purr | det |
| 18 | purr | purr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rumble | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stroke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | imperative | you not said here | a cat | on your lap | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cat=Experiencer on lap=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | present | you | a low rumble | cat's body | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme through body=Location |
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:2.
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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