Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 3
It usually means a happy cat, but cats also purr when they are hurt or frightened.
Who acts: cat, cats · What happens: mean, purr, hurt, frighten · To what, where: happy cat, eyes
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 (cat, cats), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 means | advmod |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cat | amod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 purr | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 purr | cc |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 purr | nsubj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 purr | advmod |
| 11 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hurt | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux:pass |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 purr | advcl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 frightened | cc |
| 17 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hurt | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | cat | a happy cat | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | |||
| 2 | purr | present | cats | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurt | present · passive | eyes = eye | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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): 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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