Understanding cats, sentence 15
Many cats do not like their belly touched, even when they lie on their back.
Who acts: Many cats, belly, Cats · What happens: not like, touch, lie · To what, where: back
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 (Many cats, belly, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 belly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | nsubj |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 like | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lie | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 lie | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 lie | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lie | nsubj |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lie | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | not like | present · do-support | Many cats | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | touch not said to happen | participle | Cats's belly | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | present | Cats = cat | Cats's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
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:15.
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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