Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 12
Cats blink slowly at people they trust, and slow blinking back can help a cat relax.
Who acts: Cats, blinking, cat · What happens: blink, trust, blink back, help, relax · To what, where: people, cat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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, blinking, 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 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blink | nsubj |
| 2 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 blink | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blink | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 trust | nsubj |
| 7 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 help | cc |
| 10 | slow | slow | ADV | _ | 11 blinking | advmod |
| 11 | blinking | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 help | csubj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 blinking | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 blink | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cat | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | obj |
| 17 | relax | relax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 help | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blink | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blink | present | Cats | at people; slowly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at people=Location | ||||
| 2 | trust | present | cats = cat | people not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blink back | gerund | slow property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | can | blinking | a cat | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cat=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | relax | infinitive | a cat not said here | 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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.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): 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.
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