Understanding cats, sentence 13
Cats usually purr when content, but they can also purr when hurt or stressed.
Who acts: Cats · What happens: purr, hurt, stress
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), 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 | 3 purr | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 purr | advmod |
| 3 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 content | mark |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 purr | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 purr | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 purr | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 purr | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 purr | aux |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 purr | advmod |
| 11 | purr | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 purr | conj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 purr | advcl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 stressed | cc |
| 15 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hurt | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 purr | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | present | Cats | usually property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | purr | can | Cats = cat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | Cats = cat not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stress | participle | Cats = cat not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:13.
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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