Understanding cats, sentence 2
Slow blinks mean a cat feels safe with you, while wide, round pupils in good light can mean it is scared or excited.
Who acts: Slow blinks, cat, wide round pupils, light · What happens: mean, feel, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Slow blinks, cat, wide round pupils, light), 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 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blinks | amod |
| 2 | blinks | blink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feels | nsubj |
| 6 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mean | ccomp |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feels | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 safe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 mean | mark |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pupils | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wide | punct |
| 14 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pupils | amod |
| 15 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pupils | nmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | aux |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mean | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 scared | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 scared | cop |
| 23 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mean | ccomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 excited | cc |
| 25 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 scared | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Slow blinks | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | a cat | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | can | wide round pupils in good light | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | light | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | light not said here | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×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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