Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 36

Real life: bats really do hang upside down and find their way in the dark by listening to the echoes of their own squeaks; cats really purr, and kittens play-hunt string to practise catching prey.

Who acts: bats, cats, kittens, life · What happens: hang down, find, listen, purr, play, practise · To what, where: upside, way, dark, hunt string, prey

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 (bats, cats, kittens, life), 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	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 hang	punct
4	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hang	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 hang	advmod
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hang	aux
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	parataxis
8	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hang	obj
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 hang	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hang	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 dark	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dark	det
16	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 listening	mark
18	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 dark	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 echoes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 echoes	det
21	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 listening	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 squeaks	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 squeaks	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 squeaks	amod
25	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 echoes	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 cats	punct
27	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 purr	nsubj
28	really	really	ADV	_	29 purr	advmod
29	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 listening	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 string	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 play	cc
32	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 play	nsubj
33	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 purr	conj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 hunt	punct
35	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 string	compound
36	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 play	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 practise	mark
38	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 string	acl
39	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 practise	xcomp
40	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 catching	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang down	present · do-support	bats	upside		down property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient
2	find	infinitive	bats not said here	life's way	the dark		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	listen	gerund	bats not said here			to the echoes of life's own squeaks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to echo=Theme
4	purr	infinitive	cats				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play	present	kittens	hunt string			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
6	practise	to-infinitive	kittens not said here	hunt string not said here			tree rules
7	catch	gerund	kittens not said here	prey			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
8	squeak		life				nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=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:books:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:36.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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