Understanding cats, sentence 5
For example, a cat that rolls onto its back is showing it trusts you, but rubbing its belly often ends in a scratch, because most cats protect their tummy.
Who acts: cat, tail, most cats · What happens: roll, show, trust, rub, end, protect · To what, where: back, you, belly, scratch, tummy · 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 (cat, tail, most cats), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showing | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showing | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 rolls | nsubj |
| 7 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cat | acl:relcl |
| 8 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rolls | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 showing | aux |
| 12 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trusts | nsubj |
| 14 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 showing | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 trusts | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rubbing | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 rubbing | cc |
| 18 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 showing | conj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 belly | nmod:poss |
| 20 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rubbing | obj |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 ends | advmod |
| 22 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 showing | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 scratch | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 scratch | det |
| 25 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ends | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 protect | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 protect | mark |
| 28 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 cats | amod |
| 29 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 protect | nsubj |
| 30 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ends | advcl |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 32 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 protect | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 showing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present | a cat | example's back | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto back=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | show | present · progressive | a cat | for example | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | trust | present | tail | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rub | gerund | a cat not said here | tail's belly | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent belly=Theme | ||||
| 5 | end | present | a cat not said here | a scratch | often property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | protect | present | most cats | Cats's tummy | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tummy=Beneficiary |
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:5.
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 ×3. 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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