Understanding cats, sentence 10
A tail that flicks, swishes or thumps usually means the cat is annoyed.
Who acts: tail, cat · What happens: flick, mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tail, cat), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tail | det |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 flicks | nsubj |
| 4 | flicks | flick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tail | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swishes | punct |
| 6 | swishes | swish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flicks | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 thumps | cc |
| 8 | thumps | thump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swishes | conj |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 means | advmod |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 annoyed | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 annoyed | cop |
| 14 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flick | present | a tail | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | a tail | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the cat | annoyed property | 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:10.
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. 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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