Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 12

A black cat crossing the road brings no bad luck; in some countries black cats are even thought lucky, and in shelters black cats are sometimes adopted less often because of the myth.

Who acts: black cat · What happens: cross, bring, think, adopt · To what, where: road, bad luck, black cats, countries, shelters

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 (black 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brings	nsubj
4	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cat	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	obj
7	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 luck	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 luck	amod
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brings	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 countries	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 countries	det
14	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thought	obl
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cats	amod
16	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thought	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thought	aux:pass
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 thought	advmod
19	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brings	parataxis
20	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thought	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 adopted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 adopted	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 shelters	case
24	shelters	shelter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 adopted	obl
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cats	amod
26	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 adopted	nsubj:pass
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 adopted	aux:pass
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 adopted	advmod
29	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 thought	conj
30	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 often	advmod
31	often	often	ADV	_	29 adopted	advmod
32	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	35 myth	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 because	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 myth	det
35	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 adopted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brings	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	a black cat not said here	the road			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
2	bring	present	a black cat	no bad luck			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme
3	think speech: other	present · passive		black cats	some countries	lucky property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	adopt	present · passive		black cats	shelters	because the myth; often, sometimes property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:12.

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.

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