The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 20

Chasing a pet or grabbing it for cuddles makes it trust you less; sitting still and letting it come to you works better.

Who acts: Chasing, person, sitting · What happens: chase, grab, make, trust, sit, let · To what, where: pet, person, you

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 (Chasing, person, sitting), 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	Chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pet	det
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chasing	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 grabbing	cc
5	grabbing	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Chasing	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grabbing	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 cuddles	case
8	cuddles	cuddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grabbing	obl
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 trust	obj
13	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 trust	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 works	csubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 letting	cc
18	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sitting	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 letting	obj
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 letting	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	conj
24	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 works	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund		a pet				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme
2	grab	gerund		person			for cuddles	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for cuddle=Beneficiary
3	make	present	Chasing	person				tree rules
4	trust	infinitive	person not said here	you			less property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	sit	gerund				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	let	gerund		person				tree rules
7	come	infinitive	person not said here		you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
8	work	present	sitting				well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:20.

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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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