Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 4

She does not cry or limp, because cats hide pain well, so that missing jump may be the only sign that her joints hurt.

Who acts: dog, cats, missing jump, joints · What happens: not cry, limp, hide, be, hurt · To what, where: pain, only sign

This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (dog, cats, missing jump, joints), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cry	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cry	advmod
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 limp	cc
6	limp	limp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pain	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 hide	mark
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hide	nsubj
10	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	advcl
11	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hide	obj
12	well	well	ADV	_	10 hide	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sign	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	22 sign	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sign	mark
16	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 jump	amod
17	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sign	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sign	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sign	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sign	det
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sign	amod
22	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 hurt	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 joints	nmod:poss
25	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hurt	nsubj
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sign	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	present · do-support	dog			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	limp	infinitive	dog not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	present	cats	pain	well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
4	is a	may	missing jump	the only sign		tree rules
5	hurt	present	dog's joints	the only sign not said here		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:4.

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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