Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 5
A tail swishing or lashing quickly from side to side means the cat is annoyed or very excited; if it does this while being stroked, stop stroking.
Who acts: tail, cat, side · What happens: swish, lash, mean, be, do, stroke · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tail, cat, side), 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 | 2 tail | det |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | swishing | swish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tail | acl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 lashing | cc |
| 5 | lashing | lash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 swishing | conj |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 lashing | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lashing | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lashing | obl |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cat | det |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 annoyed | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 annoyed | cop |
| 15 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 excited | cc |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 excited | advmod |
| 18 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 annoyed | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 does | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 does | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 does | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 stop | advcl |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 does | obj |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 stroked | mark |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 stroked | aux:pass |
| 26 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 does | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stop | punct |
| 28 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | parataxis |
| 29 | stroking | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 stop | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | 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 | swish | gerund | a tail not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lash | gerund | a tail not said here | to side; to side; quickly property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to side=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a tail | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the cat | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the cat not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | side | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | stroke | gerund · passive | side not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 8 | stop | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 9 | stroke | gerund | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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