Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 7

Whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs full of nerves; a cat uses them to judge whether it fits through a gap, and they must never be cut.

Who acts: Whiskers, cat · What happens: be, root, use, judge, fit, not cut · To what, where: whiskers, gap

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 (Whiskers, 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	Whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thick	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thick	cop
3	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hairs	punct
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hairs	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 deep	punct
7	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hairs	amod
8	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thick	parataxis
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hairs	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 nerves	case
11	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 uses	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 uses	nsubj
15	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thick	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 uses	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 judge	mark
18	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 uses	xcomp
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 fits	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fits	nsubj
21	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 judge	ccomp
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 gap	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 gap	det
24	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fits	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cut	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cut	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cut	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 cut	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 cut	aux:pass
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thick	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Whiskers			thick property	tree rules
2	root	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	use	present	a cat	whiskers = whisker			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	judge	to-infinitive	a cat not said here				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	fit	present	cat		a gap		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory
6	not cut	must · passive		whiskers = whisker			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:7.

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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