Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 17
Cat whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs with many nerve endings that sense touch and tiny movements of air, and they help a cat judge whether it can fit through a gap.
Who acts: Cat whiskers, many nerve endings, whiskers, cat · What happens: be, root, sense, help, judge, fit · To what, where: touch, gap, air
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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 (Cat whiskers, many nerve endings, whiskers, cat), 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 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whiskers | compound |
| 2 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thick | cop |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hairs | punct |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hairs | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 deep | punct |
| 8 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hairs | amod |
| 9 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thick | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 endings | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 endings | amod |
| 12 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 endings | compound |
| 13 | endings | ending | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hairs | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sense | nsubj |
| 15 | sense | sense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 endings | acl:relcl |
| 16 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sense | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 movements | cc |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 movements | amod |
| 19 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 touch | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 movements | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 help | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nsubj |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thick | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cat | det |
| 27 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 judge | nsubj |
| 28 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 help | xcomp |
| 29 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 32 fit | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fit | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fit | aux |
| 32 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 judge | ccomp |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 gap | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 gap | det |
| 35 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fit | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cat whiskers | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | root | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | sense | present | many nerve endings | touch and tiny movements of air | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer touch=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | help | present | whiskers = whisker | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | judge | infinitive | a cat | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fit | can | cat | a gap | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | move | air | nom movement «act transitive»: of=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:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:17.
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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