Understanding cats, sentence 4
Let a cat come to you, stroke it gently on its cheeks, chin and the base of its ears, and stop as soon as its tail starts to twitch, its skin ripples or its ears turn back.
Who acts: you, cat, tail, skin ripples · What happens: let, come, stroke, stop, start, twitch · To what, where: cat, you, light, cheeks
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 (you, cat, tail, skin ripples), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stroke | punct |
| 8 | stroke | stroke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stroke | obj |
| 10 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 stroke | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 cheeks | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stroke | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chin | punct |
| 15 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheeks | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 base | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 base | det |
| 18 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheeks | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ears | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ears | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 base | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stop | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stop | cc |
| 24 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 soon | advmod |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 stop | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 starts | mark |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tail | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 starts | nsubj |
| 30 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 soon | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 twitch | mark |
| 32 | twitch | twitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 starts | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ripples | punct |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 skin | nmod:poss |
| 35 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ripples | compound |
| 36 | ripples | ripple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 turn | nsubj |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 ears | cc |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 ears | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 ripples | conj |
| 40 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stop | advcl |
| 41 | back | back | ADV | _ | 40 turn | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | a cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | a cat not said here | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stroke | infinitive | you not said here | light | light's cheeks and chin and the base of light's ears | gently property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 4 | stop | infinitive | you not said here | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | start | present | light's tail | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | twitch | to-infinitive | light's tail not said here | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | turn back | present | skin ripples or light's ears | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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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