Understanding cats, sentence 0
Cats talk with their ears, tail, eyes and voice: a tail held straight up with a little hook at the tip is a friendly hello.
Who acts: Cats, tail · What happens: talk, hold, be · To what, where: tail, friendly hello
This is a sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday 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 (Cats, tail), 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 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talk | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tail | punct |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ears | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 voice | cc |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tail | det |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hello | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 tail | acl |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 up | advmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 held | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hook | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hook | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hook | amod |
| 21 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 tip | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tip | det |
| 24 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hook | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hello | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hello | det |
| 27 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hello | amod |
| 28 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Cats | with Cats's ears and tail and eyes and voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ear=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | participle | a tail not said here | with a little hook at the tip | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a tail | a friendly hello | 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:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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