Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 0
Cats are quieter than dogs, but they talk all the time with their tails, ears, eyes and paws, and once you learn the signs you can read a cat's mood across the room.
Who acts: Cats, you · What happens: be, talk, learn, read · To what, where: signs, mood, room
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 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, 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 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 quieter | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quieter | cop |
| 3 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 dogs | case |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 quieter | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 talk | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 talk | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 talk | nsubj |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quieter | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 time | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 talk | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tails | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tails | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talk | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ears | punct |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tails | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyes | punct |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tails | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 paws | cc |
| 21 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tails | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 read | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 read | cc |
| 24 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 26 learn | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 learn | nsubj |
| 26 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 read | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 signs | det |
| 28 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 learn | obj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 read | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 read | aux |
| 31 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quieter | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cat | det |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mood | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 cat | case |
| 35 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 read | obj |
| 36 | across | across | ADP | _ | 38 room | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 room | det |
| 38 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 read | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quieter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cats | than dogs; quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | Cats = cat | time | with Cats's tails and ears and eyes and paws | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tail=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | learn | present | you | the signs | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | ||||
| 4 | read | can | you | a cat's mood | the room | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Topic |
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:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:0.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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