Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 6
A slow blink from a cat is a friendly signal, and if you blink slowly back, many cats blink again.
Who acts: slow blink, you, many cats · What happens: be, blink · To what, where: friendly signal
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 (slow blink, you, many cats), 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 blink | det |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blink | amod |
| 3 | blink | blink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 signal | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blink | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 signal | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 signal | det |
| 9 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 signal | amod |
| 10 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blink | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blink | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 blink | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 blink | nsubj |
| 15 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 blink | advcl |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 back | advmod |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 blink | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blink | punct |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cats | amod |
| 20 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 blink | nsubj |
| 21 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 signal | conj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 blink | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 signal | 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 | is a | present | a slow blink from a cat | a friendly signal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blink a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blink | present | many cats | again | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: 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:6.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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