Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us, sentence 32

Real life: many cats and dogs who grow up together are good friends; dogs do not always chase cats, and cats are not cruel or false, just more independent.

Who acts: many cats, Real life, dogs, cats · What happens: grow up, be, not chase, not be · To what, where: good friends

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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 (many cats, Real life, dogs, 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friends	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 cats	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 friends	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dogs	cc
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cats	conj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cats	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 grow	compound:prt
11	together	together	ADV	_	9 grow	advmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 friends	cop
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 friends	amod
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 cats	punct
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 chase	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 chase	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 chase	advmod
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 chase	advmod
20	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cats	compound
21	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 friends	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cruel	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cruel	cc
24	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cruel	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cruel	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 cruel	advmod
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 friends	parataxis
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 false	cc
29	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cruel	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 independent	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 independent	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 independent	advmod
33	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cruel	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	present	many cats and dogs		together property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Real life	good friends and chase cats		tree rules
3	not chase	present · do-support	dogs		always property	tree rules
4	not is	present	cats		cruel property	tree rules
5	be		cats not said here			tree rules
6	be		cats not said here			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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:32.

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 ×5, 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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