Understanding cats, sentence 18
Cat scratches and bites can get infected, so they should be washed with soap and water.
Who acts: Cat scratches · What happens: get, wash · To what, where: ears
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 (Cat scratches), 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 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scratches | compound |
| 2 | scratches | scratch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bites | cc |
| 4 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scratches | conj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | infected | infected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 washed | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 washed | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 washed | aux:pass |
| 13 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 get | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 soap | case |
| 15 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 washed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 water | cc |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soap | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | Cat scratches and bites | infected property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wash | should · passive | ears = ear | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with soap=Instrument |
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:18.
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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