Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 2

Cats were never bred to work with people the way dogs were, so they know their names but often decide not to come.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: not breed, work, know, decide, not come, name · To what, where: Cats, way, names

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 (Dogs), 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	4 bred	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 bred	advmod
4	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bred	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 way	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 know	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 names	nmod:poss
18	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 know	obj
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 decide	cc
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 decide	advmod
21	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	conj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 come	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 decide	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bred	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not breed	past · passive		Cats		tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive		the way	with people	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with people=Co-Agent
3	know	present	Dogs = dog	Dogs's names		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
4	decide	present	Dogs = dog not said here		often property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dogs = dog not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	name		Dogs = dog			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:2.

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 ×4, 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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