Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 14

Cat whiskers are very sensitive, about as wide as the cat's body, so they tell the cat whether it will fit through a gap, and help it sense prey in the dark.

Who acts: Cat whiskers, whiskers, cat · What happens: be, tell, fit, help, sense · To what, where: cat, gap, prey, dark · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cat whiskers, whiskers, cat), 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	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whiskers	compound
2	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sensitive	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sensitive	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sensitive	advmod
5	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wide	punct
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 wide	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 wide	advmod
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sensitive	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	14 body	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 body	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 cat	case
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wide	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 tell	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sensitive	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cat	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 fit	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fit	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fit	aux
24	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	ccomp
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 gap	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 gap	det
27	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 help	cc
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fit	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 help	obj
32	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 help	xcomp
33	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sense	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 dark	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dark	det
36	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sense	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sensitive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cat whiskers				sensitive property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	whiskers = whisker		the cat			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fit	future	cat			a gap		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory
4	help	infinitive	cat not said here	cat				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	sense	infinitive	cat not said here	prey		the dark		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus

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:14.

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): R7-rel-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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