Understanding cats, sentence 14
Most cats like to be stroked on the cheeks, under the chin and at the base of the ears.
Who acts: Most cats · What happens: like, stroke
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 (Most 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 like | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stroked | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stroked | aux:pass |
| 6 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 like | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cheeks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cheeks | det |
| 9 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stroked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chin | punct |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 chin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chin | det |
| 13 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stroked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 base | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 base | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 base | det |
| 17 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chin | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ears | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ears | det |
| 20 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 base | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | 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 | like | present | Most cats | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stroke not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Most cats not said here | under the chin and the base of the ears; on the cheeks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: on cheek=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:14.
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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