Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 6
Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, ill or scared, perhaps to calm themselves; a mother cat purrs while feeding, which seems to keep the kittens close and calm, and kittens can purr when only a few days old.
Who acts: Cats, mother cat, kittens · What happens: purr, calm, feeding, seem, keep · To what, where: muscles, kittens
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, mother cat, kittens), 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 purr | nsubj |
| 2 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 content | mark |
| 4 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 purr | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hurt | cc |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 hurt | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 hurt | mark |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 content | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ill | punct |
| 11 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hurt | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 scared | cc |
| 13 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ill | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 calm | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 calm | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 calm | mark |
| 17 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ill | conj |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 calm | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 purrs | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cat | det |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cat | compound |
| 22 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 purrs | nsubj |
| 23 | purrs | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 purr | parataxis |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 feeding | mark |
| 25 | feeding | feeding | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 purrs | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seems | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 seems | nsubj |
| 28 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 feeding | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 keep | mark |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seems | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 kittens | det |
| 32 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 keep | obj |
| 33 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 keep | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 calm | cc |
| 35 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 close | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 purr | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 purr | cc |
| 38 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 purr | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 purr | aux |
| 40 | purr | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 purr | conj |
| 41 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 old | advmod |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 46 old | advmod |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 days | det |
| 44 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 days | amod |
| 45 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 old | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 purr | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 purr | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=assert, hedge=1, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | present | Cats | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | calm | to-infinitive | Cats not said here | muscles = muscle | perhaps property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | purr | present | a mother cat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feeding | gerund | a mother cat not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seem | present | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | the kittens | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme | ||||
| 7 | purr | can | kittens | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/6/