The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 1

Duchess sleeps on Dad's chest, purrs on Dad's lap and sits by the door at six waiting for Dad's key.

Who acts: Duchess · What happens: sleep, purr, sit, wait · To what, where: chest, lap, six

This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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 (Duchess), 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	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 chest	case
4	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chest	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Dad	case
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleeps	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 purrs	punct
8	purrs	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sleeps	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 lap	case
10	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lap	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Dad	case
12	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purrs	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sits	cc
14	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sleeps	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sits	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 six	case
19	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 sits	obl
20	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sits	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 key	case
22	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 key	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Dad	case
24	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 waiting	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sleeps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Duchess	Dad's chest		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	purr	present	Duchess not said here	Dad's lap		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lap=Location
3	sit	present	Duchess not said here	six	by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location
4	wait	gerund	Duchess not said here		for Dad's key	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:1.

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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