Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 11
Cats have only one life; nine lives is a saying, and in some countries the saying is seven or six lives.
Who acts: Cats, nine lives, saying · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one life, saying, seven lives, countries
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, nine lives, saying), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 life | nummod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 7 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lives | nummod |
| 8 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saying | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 saying | det |
| 11 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lives | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 countries | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 countries | det |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lives | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 saying | det |
| 18 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lives | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lives | cop |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 lives | nummod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 six | cc |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 seven | conj |
| 23 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saying | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cats | one life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | nine lives | a saying and seven lives | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the saying | seven lives | some countries | 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:11.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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