Understanding cats, sentence 12
A slow blink is a sign that a cat trusts you.
Who acts: slow blink, cat · What happens: be, trust · To what, where: sign, you
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 (slow blink, 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 | 3 blink | det |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blink | amod |
| 3 | blink | blink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sign | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 trusts | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trusts | nsubj |
| 10 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sign | acl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 trusts | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a slow blink | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | present | a cat | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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:12.
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): no change. 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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