Understanding cats, sentence 20
A cat scratch or bite that becomes red, hot or swollen should be checked by a doctor.
Who acts: cat scratch, doctor · What happens: become, check · To what, where: cat scratch
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 scratch, doctor), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scratch | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratch | compound |
| 3 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 bite | cc |
| 5 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratch | conj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 becomes | nsubj |
| 7 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratch | acl:relcl |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 becomes | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hot | punct |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 swollen | cc |
| 12 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 checked | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 checked | aux:pass |
| 15 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 doctor | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 doctor | det |
| 18 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 checked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | a cat scratch or bite | red property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | check | should · passive | a doctor | a cat scratch or bite | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:20.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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