Understanding cats, sentence 11
Ears turned back or flattened mean a cat is scared or angry.
Who acts: Ears, cat · What happens: turn back, flatten, mean, be · To what, where: Ears · 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 (Ears, 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 | Ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Ears | acl |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 flattened | cc |
| 5 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | conj |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scared | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 scared | cop |
| 10 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | ccomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 angry | cc |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scared | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | participle | Ears not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | flatten | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | Ears | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a cat | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | a cat 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:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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