Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 35

Real life: most grown-up cats cannot digest cow's milk well, and it can upset their tummies; water is the best drink for a cat.

Who acts: life grown cats, milk, water · What happens: grow up, not digest, upset, be · To what, where: milk, tummies, best drink

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» of the books 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 (life grown cats, milk, water), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cats	compound
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 grown	advmod
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cats	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 digest	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 digest	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 digest	advmod
11	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 milk	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 cow	case
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 digest	obj
15	well	well	ADV	_	11 digest	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 upset	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 upset	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 upset	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 upset	aux
20	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 digest	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tummies	nmod:poss
22	tummies	tummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 upset	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 drink	punct
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drink	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 drink	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 drink	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 drink	amod
28	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 digest	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 cat	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cat	det
31	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drink	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not digest	can	life grown cats	cow's milk	well property	tree rules
3	upset	can	milk	thousands's tummies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer
4	is a	present	water	the best drink	for a cat	tree rules

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:books:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:35.

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): R6-punct-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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