Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 10
Most adult cats cannot digest (break down in the tummy) cow's milk well and it can upset their tummies, so water is the best drink for a cat, despite the cartoon saucer of milk.
Who acts: Most adult cats, milk, water · What happens: not digest, break down, upset, be · To what, where: milk, tummy, tummies, best drink
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 (Most adult cats, milk, water), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 cats | amod |
| 2 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cats | amod |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 digest | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 digest | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 digest | advmod |
| 6 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 break | punct |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 digest | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 break | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tummy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tummy | det |
| 12 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | obl |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 break | punct |
| 14 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 milk | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 cow | case |
| 16 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 digest | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 digest | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 upset | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 upset | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 upset | aux |
| 21 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 digest | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tummies | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tummies | tummy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 upset | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 drink | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 drink | advmod |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drink | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 drink | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 drink | det |
| 29 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 drink | amod |
| 30 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 upset | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 cat | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cat | det |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drink | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 saucer | punct |
| 35 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 38 saucer | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 saucer | det |
| 37 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 saucer | compound |
| 38 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 upset | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 milk | case |
| 40 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 saucer | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 digest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not digest | can | Most adult cats | cow's milk | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break down | infinitive | the tummy | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | upset | can | milk | Cats's tummies | despite the cartoon saucer of milk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | is a | present | water | the best drink | for a cat | tree rules |
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:10.
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, 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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