Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 12

Cats knead soft things with their paws, as kittens knead their mother for milk, and purr when happy, but sometimes also when hurt or scared.

Who acts: Cats, kittens · What happens: knead, purr, hurt · To what, where: soft things, mother

This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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, kittens), 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	2 knead	nsubj
2	knead	knead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knead	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 paws	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 paws	nmod:poss
7	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knead	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knead	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 knead	mark
10	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knead	nsubj
11	knead	knead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knead	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knead	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 milk	case
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knead	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 purr	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 purr	cc
18	purr	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knead	conj
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 happy	mark
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 purr	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hurt	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hurt	cc
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 hurt	advmod
24	also	also	ADV	_	26 hurt	advmod
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 hurt	advmod
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knead	advcl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 scared	cc
28	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hurt	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knead	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knead	present	Cats	soft things	with things's paws	vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thing=Experiencer with paw=Instrument
2	knead	present	kittens	kittens's mother	for milk	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mother=Material
3	purr	present	Cats not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	participle	Cats not said here		sometimes property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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