Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 8
Kneading, pushing the paws in and out on a blanket like making dough, starts with kittens feeding from their mother, and it also leaves scent from glands in the paws.
Who acts: blanket, kittens, dough · What happens: knead, push, make, start, feed, leave · To what, where: paws, blanket, dough, scent, glands
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 (blanket, kittens, dough), 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 | Kneading | knead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushing | punct |
| 3 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Kneading | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 paws | det |
| 5 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pushing | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 paws | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 out | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 in | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 blanket | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 blanket | det |
| 11 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushing | obl |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 making | mark |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 blanket | acl |
| 14 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 starts | punct |
| 16 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kneading | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 kittens | case |
| 18 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 starts | obl |
| 19 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 kittens | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 mother | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feeding | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 leaves | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 leaves | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 leaves | nsubj |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 27 leaves | advmod |
| 27 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 starts | conj |
| 28 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leaves | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 glands | case |
| 30 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 leaves | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 paws | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 paws | det |
| 33 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 glands | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 starts | 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 | knead | gerund | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 2 | push | gerund | the paws | a blanket | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on blanket=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a blanket not said here | dough | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dough=Product | ||||
| 4 | start | present | with kittens | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with kitten=Subeventuality | |||||
| 5 | feed | gerund | kittens not said here | from Cats's mother | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | leave | present | dough | scent | glands in the paws | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme scent=Source from gland=Destination |
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:8.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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