Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 2
Cats also carry a lot of myths: the cartoon saucer of milk, the nine lives and the unlucky black cat are stories, not science.
Who acts: Cats, nine lives · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: lot, stories
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), 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 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 carry | advmod |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 myths | case |
| 7 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lot | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 saucer | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 saucer | det |
| 10 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saucer | compound |
| 11 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lot | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 milk | case |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saucer | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lives | det |
| 16 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 lives | nummod |
| 17 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stories | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cat | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cat | det |
| 20 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cat | amod |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cat | amod |
| 22 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stories | cop |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 science | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 science | advmod |
| 27 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stories | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Cats | a lot of myths | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the nine lives and the unlucky black cat | stories and science | 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:2.
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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