The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 19
Cats often choose a favourite person, usually the calm one who feeds them and doesn't chase them.
Who acts: Cats, calm one · What happens: choose, feed, not chase · To what, where: favourite person, animals
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 (Cats, calm one), 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 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 choose | advmod |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 person | appos |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 feeds | nsubj |
| 13 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feeds | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 chase | cc |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 chase | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 chase | advmod |
| 18 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 feeds | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chase | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | 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 | choose | present | Cats | a favourite person | often property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | |||
| 2 | feed | present | the calm one | animals = animal | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not chase | present · do-support | the calm one not said here | animals = animal | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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