Understanding cats, sentence 7
A girl in Glasgow ignored her cat's flicking tail and flattened ears and kept rubbing its tummy; it bit her hand, and her hand swelled up and she needed antibiotics.
Who acts: girl, cat, tail, hand · What happens: ignore, flick, flatten, keep, rub, bite · To what, where: tail, ears, tummy, hand, antibiotics
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 (girl, cat, tail, hand), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ignored | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 cat | case |
| 9 | flicking | flick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 cat | acl |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ignored | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flattened | cc |
| 12 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ignored | conj |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flattened | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kept | cc |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flattened | conj |
| 16 | rubbing | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 kept | xcomp |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rubbing | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bit | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bit | nsubj |
| 21 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ignored | parataxis |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bit | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 swelled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 swelled | cc |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 swelled | nsubj |
| 28 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bit | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 swelled | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 needed | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 needed | nsubj |
| 32 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 swelled | conj |
| 33 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 needed | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ignored | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past | a girl in Glasgow | girl's cat's tail | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flick | gerund | girl's cat not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | flatten | past | a girl in Glasgow not said here | ears | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | a girl in Glasgow not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rub | gerund | a girl in Glasgow not said here | tail's tummy | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tummy=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bite | past | tail | girl's hand | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 7 | swell up | past | girl's hand | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | need | past | hand | antibiotics | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antibiotic=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:7.
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 ×2. 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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