Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 14

Cats scratch and bite when scared or hurt and usually warn first with flattened ears and a swishing tail; a scratch should be washed with soap and water, and a doctor should look if it swells, gets hot or the person feels ill.

Who acts: Cats, doctor, person · What happens: scratch, bite, hurt, warn, flatten, swish · To what, where: scratch

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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, doctor, person), 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 scratch	nsubj
2	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bite	cc
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scratch	conj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bite	advcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warn	cc
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 warn	advmod
11	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scratch	conj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 warn	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 ears	case
14	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ears	amod
15	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 warn	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tail	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tail	det
18	swishing	swish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tail	amod
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ears	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 washed	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 scratch	det
22	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 washed	nsubj:pass
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 washed	aux:pass
25	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 scratch	parataxis
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 soap	case
27	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 washed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 water	cc
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 soap	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 look	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 doctor	det
33	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 look	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 look	aux
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 washed	conj
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 swells	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 swells	nsubj
38	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 look	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gets	punct
40	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 swells	conj
41	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gets	xcomp
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 feels	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 person	det
44	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 feels	nsubj
45	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 swells	conj
46	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 feels	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scratch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scratch	present	Cats			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	present	Cats not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	infinitive	Cats not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	warn speech: warn	present	Cats not said here		with flattened ears and a swishing tail; first, usually property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	flatten	participle				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	swish	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wash	should · passive		a scratch	with soap and water	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with soap=Instrument
8	look	should	a doctor			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	swell a condition, not said to happen	present	doctor			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	get	present	doctor not said here		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
11	feel	present	the person		ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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