Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 15
Cats have a righting reflex that twists them in the air, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, and vets see many cats that fell from windows; cats do not have nine lives.
Who acts: Cats, righting reflex, vets, many cats · What happens: have, twist, hurt, see, fall, not have · To what, where: righting reflex, pets, air, falls, many cats, windows
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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, righting reflex, vets, many cats), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reflex | det |
| 4 | righting | righting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reflex | compound |
| 5 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 twists | nsubj |
| 7 | twists | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reflex | acl:relcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 twists | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twists | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurt | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 hurt | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hurt | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurt | aux |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 hurt | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hurt | aux:pass |
| 18 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 hurt | advmod |
| 19 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 falls | case |
| 21 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hurt | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 24 | vets | vet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 twists | conj |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cats | amod |
| 27 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 see | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 cats | acl:relcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 windows | case |
| 31 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fell | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 33 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 have | advmod |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | conj |
| 37 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 lives | nummod |
| 38 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cats | a righting reflex | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reflex=Patient | ||||
| 2 | twist | present | a righting reflex | pets = pet | the air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | hurt | can · passive | pets = pet | falls | still | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 4 | see | present | vets | many cats | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | many cats | windows | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from window=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | not have | present · do-support | cats | nine lives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:15.
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, R8-pos-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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