The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 23
Grabbing a cat's tail hurts it, and it may scratch hard.
Who acts: Grabbing, tail · What happens: grab, hurt, scratch · To what, where: tail
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 (Grabbing, tail), 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 | Grabbing | grab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hurts | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cat | case |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grabbing | obj |
| 6 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurts | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scratch | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 scratch | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 scratch | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 scratch | aux |
| 12 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurts | conj |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 12 scratch | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | gerund | a cat's tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Grabbing | tail | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scratch | may | tail | hard property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:23.
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): R5-strong ×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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