Understanding cats, sentence 19
Cat bites often get infected because their teeth are thin and go deep.
Who acts: teeth · What happens: bite, infect, be, go
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 (teeth), 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 bites | compound |
| 2 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 infected | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 infected | aux:pass |
| 5 | infected | infect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bites | xcomp |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 thin | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thin | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thin | cop |
| 10 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 infected | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thin | conj |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 12 go | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bites | 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 | bite | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | infect | infinitive · passive | often property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | is | present | ears's teeth | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present | ears's teeth not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:19.
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 ×2. 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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