The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 18

A real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all, while cartoon cats like Tom are often drawn with four fingers; real cats cannot talk, wear clothes or bounce back from being flattened.

Who acts: real cat, real cats · What happens: have, draw, not talk, wear, bounce back, flatten · To what, where: five toes, front paw, cartoon cats, clothes

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (real cat, real 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 toes	nummod
6	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 paw	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 paw	det
9	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 paw	amod
10	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toes	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 four	cc
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 toes	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 paw	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 paw	det
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paw	compound
16	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 four	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eighteen	punct
18	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 toes	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 eighteen	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drawn	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 drawn	mark
23	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cats	compound
24	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drawn	nsubj:pass
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 Tom	case
26	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 cats	nmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 drawn	aux:pass
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 drawn	advmod
29	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 has	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 fingers	case
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 fingers	nummod
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drawn	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 talk	punct
34	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cats	amod
35	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 talk	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 talk	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 talk	advmod
38	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 toes	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wear	punct
40	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 talk	conj
41	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	40 wear	obj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 bounce	cc
43	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 talk	conj
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 bounce	advmod
45	from	from	SCONJ	_	47 flattened	mark
46	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 flattened	aux:pass
47	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 bounce	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a real cat	five toes	each front paw		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
2	draw	present · passive		cartoon cats like Tom		with four fingers; often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not talk	can	real cats				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wear	infinitive	real cats not said here	clothes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
5	bounce back	infinitive	real cats not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	flatten	gerund · passive	real cats not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»

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:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:18.

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 ×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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