Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 4

A cat that sleeps all afternoon is not lazy: like its wild relatives it saves energy for the hunting hours at dawn and dusk.

Who acts: cat · What happens: sleep, not be, save · To what, where: energy

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), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lazy	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sleeps	nsubj
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cat	acl:relcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 afternoon	det
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lazy	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lazy	advmod
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 saves	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 relatives	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 relatives	nmod:poss
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 relatives	amod
14	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saves	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saves	nsubj
16	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lazy	parataxis
17	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saves	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 hours	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hours	det
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hours	compound
21	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saves	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 dawn	case
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saves	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dusk	cc
25	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dawn	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lazy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	a cat		afternoon		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	a cat			lazy property	tree rules
3	save	present	cat	energy	dawn; hour	like cat's wild relatives	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:4.

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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