The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 2
Keepers know that a bored cat is an unhappy cat, so they throw in a cardboard box stuffed with hay and meat, or spray a little perfume on a log, and the tiger tears and the lion sniffs and rolls.
Who acts: Keepers, bored cat, lion · What happens: know, be, throw, stuff, spray, tear · To what, where: unhappy cat, cardboard box, little perfume, log
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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 (Keepers, bored cat, lion), 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 | Keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 cat | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 5 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cat | amod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cat | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cat | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cat | amod |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throw | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 throw | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 throw | nsubj |
| 14 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 box | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 box | det |
| 17 | cardboard | cardboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 box | compound |
| 18 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throw | obl |
| 19 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 box | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hay | case |
| 21 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stuffed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 meat | cc |
| 23 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hay | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spray | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 spray | cc |
| 26 | spray | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 throw | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 perfume | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 perfume | amod |
| 29 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spray | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 log | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 log | det |
| 32 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spray | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tears | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 tears | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tiger | det |
| 36 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tears | compound |
| 37 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 throw | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sniffs | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lion | det |
| 40 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sniffs | nsubj |
| 41 | sniffs | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 tears | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 rolls | cc |
| 43 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 sniffs | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Keepers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a bored cat | a unhappy cat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | present | Keepers = keeper | a cardboard box | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in box=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stuff | participle | a cardboard box not said here | with hay and meat | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hay=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spray | present | Keepers = keeper not said here | a little perfume | a log | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme on log=Destination | |||
| 6 | tear | present | Keepers = keeper not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sniff | present | the lion | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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