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The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 22

Cats scratch and pets bite when they are hurt or scared; the fix is to change how you touch them, not to punish them.

Who acts: Cats, pets, fix, you · What happens: scratch, bite, hurt, be, touch, not punish · To what, where: pets

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, pets, fix, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjccnsubjconjmarknsubjaux:passadvclccconjpunctdetnsubjcopmarkparataxisadvmodnsubjadvclobjpunctadvmodmarkconjobjpunctrootCatsNOUNscratchVERBandCCONJpetsNOUNbiteVERBwhenSCONJtheyPRONareAUXhurtVERBorCCONJscaredADJ;PUNCTtheDETfixNOUNisAUXtoPARTchangeVERBhowADVyouPRONtouchVERBthemPRON,PUNCTnotPARTtoPARTpunishVERBthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CatscatNOUNNumber=Plur2 scratchnsubj
2scratchscratchVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3andandCCONJ_5 bitecc
4petspetNOUNNumber=Plur5 bitensubj
5bitebiteVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 scratchconj
6whenwhenSCONJ_9 hurtmark
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 hurtnsubj
8arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 hurtaux:pass
9hurthurtVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 biteadvcl
10ororCCONJ_11 scaredcc
11scaredscaredADJDegree=Pos9 hurtconj
12;;PUNCT_2 scratchpunct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 fixdet
14fixfixNOUNNumber=Sing17 changensubj
15isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 changecop
16totoPART_17 changemark
17changechangeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 scratchparataxis
18howhowADVPronType=Int20 touchadvmod
19youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs20 touchnsubj
20touchtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 changeadvcl
21themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs20 touchobj
22,,PUNCT_25 punishpunct
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 punishadvmod
24totoPART_25 punishmark
25punishpunishVERBVerbForm=Inf17 changeconj
26themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 punishobj
27..PUNCT_2 scratchpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1scratchpresentCatsvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2bitepresentpetsvn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3hurtpresent · passivepets = petvn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4ispresentthe fixchange propertytree rules
5touchpresentyoupets = petvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
6not punishto-infinitivethe fix not said herepets = petvn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:22.

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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