Understanding cats, sentence 9
A puffed-up tail and an arched back mean a cat is frightened.
Who acts: puffed up tail · What happens: puff, arch, mean, frighten · To what, where: cat · 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 (puffed up 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 | 5 tail | det |
| 2 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tail | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 4 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tail | compound |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 back | cc |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mean | det |
| 8 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mean | amod |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tail | conj |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightened | aux:pass |
| 14 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mean | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | 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 | puff | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 2 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | a puffed up tail and back | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | frighten | present · passive | a cat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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