The vet, sentence 3

After an operation a cat may come home wearing a big cone round its neck, which looks funny but stops it licking open its stitches.

Who acts: cat, neck, vet · What happens: come, wear, look, stop, lick · To what, where: big cone, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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, neck, vet), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 operation	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 operation	det
3	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 come	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cone	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cone	amod
12	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wearing	obj
13	round	round	ADV	_	12 cone	advmod
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neck	nmod:poss
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cone	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looks	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 looks	nsubj
18	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 neck	acl:relcl
19	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looks	xcomp
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 stops	cc
21	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 looks	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 licking	nsubj
23	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 stops	xcomp
24	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 licking	xcomp
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stitches	nmod:poss
26	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 licking	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	may	a cat		after a operation	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wear	gerund	a cat not said here	a big cone vet's neck			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cone=Source
3	look	present	vet's neck			funny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	stop	present	vet's neck not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	lick	gerund	vet	vet's stitches		open property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent stitch=Source

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:227-the-vet.lesson:3.

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, 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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