Thinking like an animal, sentence 9
Pet cats still have a hunting instinct even when they are well fed.
Who acts: Pet cats · What happens: have, feed · To what, where: hunting instinct, instincts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (Pet 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 | Pet | Pet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cats | compound |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 instinct | det |
| 6 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 instinct | compound |
| 7 | instinct | instinct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 fed | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 fed | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fed | aux:pass |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 fed | advmod |
| 13 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 have | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 | have | present | Pet cats | a hunting instinct | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instinct=Patient | |||
| 2 | feed | present · passive | instincts = instinct | well property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.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): 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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