The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 7

Sam's hamster Nugget bites because Sam's hand comes down from above like a hawk; when Mum shows him how to let Nugget walk onto a flat palm from the side, the biting stops.

Who acts: hamster Nugget, hand, Mum, Nugget, biting · What happens: bite, come down, show, let, walk, stop · To what, where: hand, Nugget, flat palm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hamster Nugget, hand, Mum, Nugget), 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nugget	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Nugget	compound
4	Nugget	Nugget	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bites	nsubj
5	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 comes	mark
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Sam	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bites	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 comes	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 above	case
13	above	above	ADV	_	11 down	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 hawk	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hawk	det
16	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 shows	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 shows	advmod
19	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 shows	nsubj
20	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 comes	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shows	obj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 let	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 let	mark
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 shows	ccomp
25	Nugget	Nugget	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 let	obj
26	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	onto	onto	ADP	_	30 palm	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 palm	det
29	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 palm	amod
30	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walk	obl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 side	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 side	det
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walk	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stops	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 biting	det
36	biting	biting	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stops	nsubj
37	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 let	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bites	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Sam's hamster Nugget				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	come down	present	Sam's hand			like a hawk; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	present	Mum	hand			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	let	to-infinitive		Nugget			tree rules
5	walk	infinitive	Nugget not said here		a flat palm	from the side	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto palm=Trajectory
6	stop	present	the biting				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:7.

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, R8-pos-agree ×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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