Understanding cats, sentence 8
A tail held straight up is a cat's friendly greeting.
Who acts: tail · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: tail, friendly greeting
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 (tail), 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 tail | det |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 greeting | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tail | acl |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 up | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 greeting | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 cat | case |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 greeting | amod |
| 11 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | a tail not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a tail | a cat's friendly greeting | tree rules |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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