Understanding cats, sentence 6

A boy in New York grabbed a cat and held it tight while it struggled; it scratched his face deeply, and the scratch got infected.

Who acts: boy, tail, scratch · What happens: grab, hold, struggle, scratch, get · To what, where: cat, tail, face

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 (boy, tail, scratch), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabbed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 York	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 York	compound
5	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabbed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 held	cc
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grabbed	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 held	obj
12	tight	tight	ADV	_	10 held	advmod
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 struggled	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 struggled	nsubj
15	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 held	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 scratched	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scratched	nsubj
18	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grabbed	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scratched	obj
21	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	18 scratched	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 got	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 scratch	det
25	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grabbed	conj
27	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scratched	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grabbed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grab	past	a boy in New York	a cat		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	hold	past	a boy in New York not said here	tail	tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	struggle	past	tail			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scratch	past	tail	boy's face	deeply property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
5	get	past	the scratch			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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