The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 2
When Chloe reaches for her, Duchess flattens her ears and stalks off like a duchess who's been insulted.
Who acts: Chloe, Duchess · What happens: reach, flatten, stalk off, insult · To what, where: ears, duchess
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 (Chloe, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reaches | mark |
| 2 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flattens | advcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reaches | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaches | punct |
| 7 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flattens | nsubj |
| 8 | flattens | flatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ears | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flattens | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stalks | cc |
| 12 | stalks | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flattens | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 stalks | compound:prt |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 duchess | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 duchess | det |
| 16 | duchess | duchess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stalks | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 insulted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 insulted | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 insulted | aux:pass |
| 20 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 duchess | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flattens | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | Chloe | for Duchess | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flatten | present | Duchess | Duchess's ears | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stalk off | present | Duchess not said here | like a duchess | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | insult | present · perfect · passive | a duchess | 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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:2.
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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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